Definitions

1. The Fianna was dominated by Clan Bascna, led by Cumhal, and Clan Morna, led by Goll, with Liath Luachra, the treasurer. (Web site)

Leadership

1. The Battle of Cnucha was fought between Conn and Cumhall, and Cumhall was killed by Goll mac Morna, who took over leadership of the Fianna. (Web site)

Unprecedented

1. In 1977 the coalition suffered a severe defeat, with Fianna Fail winning an unprecedented 20 seat majority in the 148 seat Dáil. (Web site)

Electorate

1. Charles Haughey and Fianna Fáil seemed extremely popular with the electorate.

Destiny

1. Fianna Fáil - The Republican Party (Pronounced "fee-na fall".) (English: Soldiers of Destiny) is the largest political party in the Republic of Ireland.

Seat

1. He was first elected as a Fianna F�il TD in 1957 and held his seat until his retirement in 1992.
2. He was first elected as a Fianna Fáil TD in 1957 and held his seat until his retirement in 1992. (Web site)
3. She is currently the longest-serving female member of Dáil after first taking a seat for Fianna Fáil in 1981.

Majority

1. The coalition of Fianna F�il and Progressive Democrats was re-elected with an increased majority in the 2002 general election on May 17.
2. The coalition of Fianna Fáil and Progressive Democrats was re-elected with an increased majority in the 2002 general election on 17 May. (Web site)
3. Fianna F�il had hoped for a majority, but remained three seats short of the 84 required.

Constituency

1. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil TD for the constituency of Tipperary South at the 1965 General Election.
2. Cyprian Brady is a a Fianna Fáil TD for the constituency of Dublin Central.
3. A general election was eventually called for February 1948, Lynch topped the poll in his constituency and became a Fianna F�il TD in the 13th D�il. (Web site)

European Parliament

1. James Ryan's grandson, also called Eoin Ryan, is a former Fianna Fáil TD and current Member of the European Parliament.
2. In the European Parliament, Fianna Fáil is a leading member of Union for Europe of the Nations, a small right-of-centre nationalist grouping. (Web site)

Green Party

1. A member of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR), it is currently in coalition government with Fianna Fáil and the Green Party.
2. That was half a century before Fianna Fail and the Green Party imposed a new blasphemy law on the people of Ireland. (Web site)

Member

1. James Ryan's grandson, also called Eoin Ryan, is currently a Fianna F�il TD and a Member of the European Parliament.
2. Walsh became a member of the Gang of 22 who opposed Charles Haughey 's leadership of Fianna Fáil during the 1980's.
3. James Ryan's grandson, also called Eoin Ryan, is currently a Fianna Fáil TD and a Member of the European Parliament.

Labour Party

1. After negotiations Fianna Fáil entered into a coalition with the Labour Party. (Web site)
2. After the 1992 general election, Fianna Fáil and the Labour Party formed a coalition government, which collapsed in 1994.

December 1979

1. In December 1979 he nominated Charles Haughey for the leadership of Fianna F�il.
2. In December 1979 he nominated Charles Haughey for the leadership of Fianna Fáil.
3. His successor was elected by the members of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party on 7 December 1979.

Resignation

1. In December 1979 he announced his resignation as Taoiseach and leader of Fianna F�il.
2. In December 1979 Lynch announced his resignation as Taoiseach and leader of Fianna F�il.
3. In December 1979 he announced his resignation as Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil. (Web site)

Presidential Election

1. In 1990 the Fianna Fáil nominee in the presidential election was Brian Lenihan, a hugely popular figure in politics.
2. Lenihan entered the race as odds-on favourite; no Fianna Fáil candidate had ever lost a presidential election.

Labour

1. However, the public had never forgiven Labour for going into coalition with Fianna Fáil after the previous election. (Web site)
2. Labour lost heavily however, and Fianna Fáil led by Bertie Ahern came to power in a coalition with the Progressive Democrats.
3. Fianna Fáil has been accused by Fine Gael and Labour of being "the most corrupt party ever to enter Dáil Éireann".

General Election

1. The general election which followed in 1957 gave Fianna Fáil an overall majority and started another sixteen years of unbroken rule for the party. (Web site)
2. A general election was eventually called for February 1948, Lynch topped the poll in his constituency and became a Fianna Fáil TD in the 13th Dáil.
3. Charles Haughey, the leader of Fianna Fáil, called the general election for another reason.

First Time

1. He failed and, consequently, for the first time in the history of the Fianna Fail Party, had to form a coalition government. (Web site)
2. June 14 - The Green Party enters government for the first time in Ireland, with Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats.
3. For the first time an alternative government could be formed without Fianna F�il. (Web site)

Core Value

1. It was the first time that Fianna Fáil had entered into a coalition, abandoning its "core value" in the overwhelming need to form a government. (Web site)

Dominant Party

1. Fianna Fáil, the dominant party in the Republic, has recently opened a cumann (branch) in Derry, and begun recruiting at Queens University Belfast.

Second Term

1. The outgoing president Éamon de Valera reluctantly agreed under Fianna Fáil party pressure to seek a second term.
2. Early on in his second term as Taoiseach, Lynch decided that he would not lead Fianna Fáil into another general election campaign. (Web site)

Political Base

1. Senator Margaret Cox (Fianna Fail) also maintains her political base in Galway city.
2. Senator Margaret Cox (Fianna Fáil) also maintains her political base in Galway city.

March 1987

1. Haughey and Fianna Fail were returned to power in March 1987, but again without an absolute majority. (Web site)
2. Fianna Fáil returned to power in March 1987, after Fine Gael were heavily defeated in the 1987 general election. (Web site)

Seventy-Five

1. In 1957 de Valera, at the age of seventy-five, announced to Fianna F�il that he planned to retire.
2. In 1957 de Valera, at the age of seventy-five, announced to Fianna Fáil that he planned to retire. (Web site)

January 1992

1. On 30 January 1992, Haughey retired as leader of Fianna F�il at a parliamentary party meeting. (Web site)
2. On 30 January 1992, Haughey retired as leader of Fianna Fáil at a parliamentary party meeting. (Web site)

Mary Harney

1. However, Mary Harney and Bobby Molloy were the only Fianna Fáil TDs to defect and Fianna Fáil returned to normal, united behind Haughey. (Web site)
2. The party's two remaining TDs, Mary Harney and Noel Grealish, entered into coalition government with Fianna Fáil and the Green Party in the 30th Dáil. (Web site)
3. However, Mary Harney and Bobby Molloy were the only Fianna F�il TDs to defect and Fianna F�il returned to normal, united behind Haughey.

Harney

1. Harney served as Tánaiste (deputy prime minister) from May 1997 until September 2006 after a return to government with Fianna Fáil. (Web site)

Progressive Democrats

1. In 1989 a general election resulted in Fianna F�il taking the unprecedented move of entering into a coalition government with the Progressive Democrats. (Web site)
2. In 1989 the Progressive Democrats entered into coalition government with Charles Haughey 's Fianna F�il.
3. In 1989 a general election resulted in Fianna Fáil taking the unprecedented move of entering into a coalition government with the Progressive Democrats.

Own Political Party

1. Fianna F�il was also hit hard when O'Malley set up his own political party, the Progressive Democrats, in December of 1985.
2. Fianna Fáil was also hit hard when O'Malley set up his own political party, the Progressive Democrats, in December of 1985. (Web site)

Negative View

1. De Valera developed a negative view of Haughey, whom he distrusted and whom he told another minister some years later would destroy Fianna Fáil. (Web site)

Dublin

1. Michael Mulcahy is a politeecian in the Republic o Ireland, an a member o the Irish pairlament in Dublin, representin the pairty Fianna Fáil.
2. A few years into his rather lengthy tenure as the vice-president of Fianna Fail, Ahern was elected as the Lord Mayor of Dublin. (Web site)
3. A now retired politician with Fianna Fáil party in Dublin.

Boland

1. Blaney and Boland left Fianna Fáil but Haughey remained.
2. When his supporters started chanting 'We want Boland', Hillery famously replied, 'You can have Boland, but you can't have Fianna Fáil '.

Core Principles

1. In 1989, political history was made when Fianna Fáil abandoned one of its "core principles", its opposition to coalition.

Northern Ireland

1. Fianna F�il, the dominant party in the Republic, has opened a number of cumainn (branches) within Northern Ireland.
2. Fianna Fáil rejected the Anglo-Irish Agreement which gave the Republic of Ireland an advisory role in Northern Ireland for the first time. (Web site)
3. Seeks coalition with Fianna Fail to complement its influence in a fledgling power-sharing government in Northern Ireland.

Arms Crisis

1. When his son, Kevin Boland, resigned as a Minister in 1970 because of the Arms Crisis, Gerald Boland resigned as vice-president and trustee of Fianna F�il.
2. When his son, Kevin Boland, resigned as a Minister in 1970 because of the Arms Crisis, Gerald Boland resigned as vice-president and trustee of Fianna Fáil.

Aiken

1. Between 1951 and 1969 (except from 1954 to 1957 when Fianna F�il were in opposition) Aiken served as Minister for External Affairs.
2. A founding-member of Fianna Fáil, Aiken was first elected to Dáil Éireann in 1923 and at each subsequent election until 1973.

Fitzgerald

1. Fianna F�il lost the election and FitzGerald once again returned as Taoiseach with a comfortable D�il majority.
2. Fianna F�il lost the November 1982 election and FitzGerald once again returned as Taoiseach with a comfortable D�il majority. (Web site)
3. Fianna Fáil lost the November 1982 election and FitzGerald once again returned as Taoiseach with a comfortable Dáil majority. (Web site)

Garret Fitzgerald

1. In 1981 a Fine Gael–Labour coalition headed by Garret FitzGerald defeated Fianna Fáil on an economic platform. (Web site)
2. In 1981 a Fine Gael-Labour coalition headed by Garret FitzGerald defeated Fianna Fáil on an economic platform.

President

1. He had been appointed the Fianna Fáil campaign manager, to run President de Valera 's re-election campaign.
2. If the President refused a dissolution, FitzGerald would have to resign and Fianna Fáil would be invited to form a government.
3. Thomas Byrne TD is the nominated head or Cathaoirleach of Ógra Fianna Fáil, having been appointed by President of Fianna Fáil, Brian Cowen, in 2009.

Election Campaign

1. Ahern became a member of Fianna Fáil at the age of 17, and in the 1969 general election he helped in the election campaign in his constituency. (Web site)

Irish Politician

1. Liam Fitzgerald (born September, 1949) is an Irish politician and member of the 22nd Seanad Éireann for Fianna Fáil.
2. Liam Lawlor: Irish politician who resigned from the Fianna Fáil party; died in a car-crash in Moscow in 2005.

Irish Politicians

1. Haughey, one of the most controversial of Irish politicians in the 20th century, was the fourth leader of Fianna F�il, from 1979 until 1992. (Web site)
2. Haughey, one of the most controversial of Irish politicians in the 20th century, was the fourth leader of Fianna Fáil, from 1979 until 1992.
3. Irish politicians who are or were members of the Fianna Fáil party.

Cowen

1. Cowen, along with Noel Dempsey and Bertie Ahern, negotiated on behalf of Fianna Fáil in an attempt to form a government with the Labour Party.
2. When Taoiseach Bertie Ahern declared his resignation on April 2nd, 2008, Cowen was elected unopposed as the new leader of Fianna Fáil on April 9th. (Web site)
3. Bernard F. "Ber" Cowen (29th January 1932 – 24th January 1984) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who was elected five times to Dáil Éireann.

Minority Government

1. Fianna F�il ended up losing four seats and the possibility of forming another minority government looked slim.
2. Fianna Fáil returned to power with Haughey as head of a minority government. (Web site)
3. Fianna Fáil ended up losing four seats and the possibility of forming another minority government looked slim.

Opposition Benches

1. Fianna F�il were consigned to the opposition benches for five years.
2. Fianna Fáil and de Valera were returned to power in 1957, banishing Fine Gael once more to the opposition benches.
3. Fianna Fáil were then consigned to the opposition benches for five years.

Former Taoiseach

1. He said: "I have learned with great sadness of the death today of the former Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fail, Mr Charles Haughey. (Web site)

Party Leader

1. In 1979 the concerns of the Fianna F�il Party turned to who would succeed Jack Lynch as Party leader and as Taoiseach.
2. The following year Haughey resigned as party leader and Albert Reynolds became the fifth leader of Fianna Fáil and Taoiseach. (Web site)
3. The entire election proved to be a landslide for Fianna Fáil and in particular showed the popularity of the party leader and Taoiseach, Jack Lynch.

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