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Full coverage: Garret Fitzgerald

“Haughey was a bit of a silverback gorilla. He had to be in charge”

Garret Fitzgerald spoke of Charles Haughey’s ‘flawed pedigree’, but the two men shaped modern Ireland. Eoin O’Malley talks to Dion Fanning about the era when the two men dominated Irish life.

Dion Fanning
4th Oct, 2025 - 6 min read

Fintan Drury: Ireland needs its politicians to provide vision and imagination

One of the reasons we’re facing the crises we are is because, for decades, we’ve been without the form of political leadership which puts up a vision of how the country might be.

Fintan Drury
21st Jan, 2023 - 10 min read

A man in full: Negotiating the Anglo-Irish Agreement, the genius of Tony Ryan and Castro’s Irish fascination

Michael Lillis has led an extraordinary life from his role as a civil servant to his period as a key executive with Guinness Peat Aviation. There were audiences with the pope, Franco and Castro and a lot more in between.

Sam Smyth
29th Sep, 2021 - 20 min read
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