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Article: The Lie of the Land: Irish Identities.

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July 1, 1998
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Fintan O'Toole. Verso. [pounds]15.00. 1SBN 1-85984-821-4.

It would seem, from what the journalist Fintan O'Toole has written, that anyone interested might learn a lot about political funding by going straight to Dublin. 'In July 1997 Charles Haughey, former leader of Fianna Fail, admitted that he had received [pounds]1.3 million from a businessman between 1987 and 1992'. That quotation opens Fintan O'Toole's utterly scathing essay on Haughey himself.

In the autumn of 1997 Ray Burke resigned his post as Foreign Minister in the present Irish (Fianna Fail) Government and withdrew as one of the chief negotiators in the Northern Ireland peace talks. Dail Eireann ...

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