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Fri 12 Dec 2008Taoiseach leads tributes to Conor Cruise O'Brien
THE DEATH has taken place of the former cabinet minister, writer, scholar, diplomat and journalist, Conor Cruise O'Brien. Born in Dublin in 1917, Dr Cruise O'Brien was one of the leading intellectual lights of the Labour Party during the 1960s.
Following a career as a civil servant in the Department of Finance and the Department of External Affairs, he worked at the United Nations and attracted the attention of leading figures there before he was given a key role in the organisation's difficult operation in the Congo in 1960 and 1961 by the then UN secretary general, Dag Hammarskjold.
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