Bertie Ahern
Bertie Ahern
Patrick Bartholomew "Bertie" Ahernis a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach of Ireland from 26 June 1997 to 7 May 2008...
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blair doubt examine parties points proposals stated tony
As all parties examine the proposals that Tony Blair and I issued them, no doubt they will have some points of clarification. Already Mr. Trimble has stated he has some.
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People should not allow themselves to be deflected or disheartened, ... determined that, working closely with the British government and the parties, a way can and will be found to implement the agreement in full.
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that the weapons and explosives are safely and adequately stored and cannot be used without the knowledge of Mr. Ahtisaari and Mr. Ramaphosa, who will re-inspect the arms dumps on a regular basis to ensure that the weapons have remained secure.
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Your even-handed support and wise counsel continues to be an invaluable resource to us for our search for lasting peace,
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Obviously we had wished to be able to present the proposals in the context of full agreement. (But) we are on the brink of an accommodation that would have been regarded as impossible not that long ago.
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was prepared to take risks for the peace process, risks to secure agreement and risks to implement it.
absolutely allowed democracy dublin essence excuse express freely irish peaceful people scenes views
There is absolutely no excuse for the disgraceful scenes in Dublin today. It is the essence of Irish democracy and republicanism that people are allowed to express their views freely and in a peaceful manner.
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The people on whose behalf you claim to act have spoken. Your ways are the ways of the past,
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If they don't, we will intensify every single effort that I can physically and possibly do legislatively, and with the security forces, to break these organizations,
five hardly policies
There are so many differences in our policies I'd hardly get through five days.
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I'm not a soldier and I don't want to be, and quite frankly I don't care about the brand name of the guns and that sort of thing.
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Ireland is absolutely committed to playing its part in supporting the people of Iraq to build a truly sovereign and secure country.
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George should be remembered as the very best at what he did. He was quite simply a football genius.