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Sat 02 Feb 2009Revealed - how Aiken outfoxed MacEntee to buy Paris embassy

IRELAND’S AMBASSADOR to France last night revealed how then minister for foreign affairs Frank Aiken outmanoueuvred then minister for finance Seán MacEntee to buy the Irish Embassy in Paris.

Anne Anderson was speaking in French to an audience gathered at Alliance Française ahead of today’s Ireland v France Six Nations rugby match.