Garret Fitzgerald
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Covid vaccines: We may ‘follow the science’, but do we listen to what it says?
- Opinion
- January 6, 2021, 05:00
The Taoiseach tells us that mass vaccinations are being rolled out and that we will be in a “very different position” by the summer. That is the begin(...)

Mother of Irish man held in China ‘terribly disappointed with Government’
- Irish News
- December 24, 2020, 01:00
The marks, good and bad, left by the State’s history on one family line are traced through the household of Catherine O’Halloran, near the foothills o(...)

Family of Irish man held in China: ‘Nobody is helping us – we are just begging for help’
- Irish News
- December 5, 2020, 06:00
The wife of an Irish businessman who has effectively been trapped in China for the past two years, says she is begging for help to get him out, adding(...)

‘Attention-seeking’ Shane Ross has a spiky joust with Regina Doherty
- TV, Radio, Web
- October 30, 2020, 10:00
If you’re bored with constant conversations about Covid-19, spare a thought for Brendan O’Connor. With immaculate timing, O’Connor began hosting his s(...)

Collectables and curios from Bazaar days to auction
- Fine Art & Antiques
- August 29, 2020, 06:00
The contents from the former home of the late Jim and Miriam O’Donnell, who lived over their business, Days Bazaar on Oliver Plunkett Street in Mullin(...)

Fr Enda McDonagh remains powerful voice for theology at the fringe
- Opinion
- July 14, 2020, 04:00
Enda McDonagh’s 90th birthday at the end of June reminds me that his close friend Seán MacRéamoinn, in a classic flight of fancy, once suggested that (...)

‘He needs to be allowed to come home’ – Irish man detained in China for 15 months
- Irish News
- June 12, 2020, 00:29
The wife of a Dublin businessman barred from leaving China for 15 months has made a direct appeal to the Irish Government to intervene and push for hi(...)

Seán O’Rourke: 32,000 interviews later... ‘I’ve had my fill’
- TV, Radio, Web
- May 10, 2020, 06:00
When he opens his front door in Killiney, Co Dublin, Sean O’Rourke bows to me instead of shaking my hand. “That’s what Charlie Haughey used to like hi(...)

A riot, champagne and Charlie Haughey: Garret FitzGerald’s eve of VE Day diary
- Irish News
- May 8, 2020, 16:32
Garret FitzGerald was forced to flee when gardaí carrying batons charged a crowd trying to break into Trinity College Dublin on the eve of Victory in (...)

VE Day 75: Haughey, FitzGerald and that ‘Irish Times’ front page
- Irish News
- May 7, 2020, 21:34
At 1.25pm on May 7th, 1945 Germany surrendered to the Allies in the town of Rheims in France, the headquarters of Allied supreme commander Dwight D Ei(...)