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Tue 06 Jun 2009June 2nd, 1981: 1981 general election held in shadow of hunger strikes
BACK PAGES:THE 1981 general election was held in the shadow of the H Blocks hunger strikes and the death of Bobby Sands in the North, but there were other ghosts hovering over Taoiseach Charles Haughey’s visit to Kilkenny as part of his nationwide tour. Maev Kennedy was there to watch as he came face-to-face with Jim Gibbons, a local Fianna Fáil candidate and former defence minister who had given evidence against Haughey in the 1970 Arms Trial.
Electoral glue unites Gibbons and Haughey
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