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Article: Irish experience.
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- Economic Times (New Delhi, India)
- Article date:
- November 2, 2006
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Byline: Bachi Karkaria
Nov. 2--He is as hospitable as his ministry, and has the smiling Irish eyes of legend. Irish minister John O'Donoghue wears a tri-cornered hat of tourism, sports and culture, and though a guest of the first, the reporter's planned opening gambit was about the second: she was told he's a passionate supporter of his home county, Kerry's football team.
However, before their scheduled meeting, he was barricaded in the Dial, where the Taoiseach (pronounced T-shuk and meaning chieftain) was fighting off a corruption charge. Finally, battle-scarred but triumphant, sitting in his solid 1930s ministry building facing a triptych called "My ...