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Unlike every other proposal Simon Harris has brought to Government, his Cabinet reshuffle didn’t entirely leak out in advance. History in its own right.
The role of Taoiseach is a “very different game” to that of a cabinet minister, according to Bertie Ahern.
The notion that the incoming taoiseach is uniquely energetic is easily dismissed. And even if Simon Harris is a human dynamo, it's hard to see how that will help tackle multiple crises facing Ireland
Wigmore likes to keep an eye on the property market, and was pleased to see the late Chris Wall’s home recently went “sale agreed” with an asking price of €795,000 — meaning in today’s market it probably sold for considerably more.
More than a quarter of a century ago, John Hume said something that often seems unfulfilled, despite the peace he helped secure. Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize alongside David Trimble in 1998, the SDLP leader told the Oslo audience: “Too many lives have already been lost in Ireland in the pursuit of political goals. Bloodshed for political change prevents the only change that truly matters: in the human heart.”