His strong leadership skills and determination were clearly evident in 1970 when allegations ( later disproved in court, though questions since have emerged challenging that verdict in one case ), that the hardline republican Minister for Agriculture, Neil Blaney, and the Minister for Finance, Charles Haughey, were involved in an attempt to use £ 100, 000 in aid money to import arms for the Provisional IRA.

Government ministers, Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney, were later put on trial for allegedly supplying arms to republican paramilitaries.

Also seen frequently, and lending a certain continuity to the series, are the minor characters Alf Miscolo ( the clerk in charge of records and coffee ) and desk sergeant Dave Murchison, as well as a large cast of regulars who do not work at the 87th, including Steve's deaf-mute wife Theodora " Teddy " Carella ; the buffoonish and arrogant homicide detectives Monoghan and Monroe, who always appear together ; the crime lab supervisor Sam Grossman ; Medical Examiner Paul Blaney ( and later his twin brother Carl ) from the Coroner's Office ; police informants Danny Gimp and Fats Donner ; Rolly Chabrier and Nellie Brand from the District Attorney's office ; and Detective Ollie Weeks ( a. k. a. " Fat Ollie "), a central character in several 87th Precinct novels even though he is in fact on the squad of the neighboring 88th Precinct.

He was replaced by Patrick Blaney as Chief Executive and by Dennis Stevenson ( later Lord Stevenson of Coddenham ) as Chairman.

Some hours later the other Ministers in question, Neil Blaney and Charles Haughey were asked to resign but refused to do so and were thus sacked.

It emerged later that Neil Blaney had ordered him to do so outside normal legal channels, but before the weapons arrived the Garda Special Branch had heard of the plan and tipped off the Taoiseach, resulting in criminal charges.

Four-term incumbent Margaret-Ann Blaney, upon appointment as CEO of Efficiency NB, announced that she would resign the seat effective May 25, requiring a by-election to be called no later than November 25, 2012, which means an election will be held no later than December 31, 2012.

After thirteen races, he was replaced by Dave Blaney, but later attempted two races in Childress ' # 33 car, but did not qualify for either of them.

Blaney scored his first top 10 with Toyota at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on July 29, and later that season finished third at Talladega, the best finish of any Toyota in 2007.

An honours graduate with a Bachelor's degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Newfoundland, Blaney worked as a reporter for both television and radio from 1982 – 1993, when she became a candidate against Brian Tobin in the 1993 Canadian federal election finishing a distant second.

The hawks in the cabinet were seen as Kevin Boland and Neil Blaney, both sons of founding fathers in the party with strong Old IRA pasts.

There was general surprise when, in an incident known as the Arms Crisis, Haughey, along with Blaney, was sacked from Lynch's cabinet amid allegations of the use of the funds to import arms for use by the IRA.

Haughey and Blaney were subsequently tried in court along with an army Officer, Captain James Kelly, and Albert Luykx, a former Flemish National Socialist and businessman, who allegedly used his contacts to buy the arms.

He engineered confidence and supply agreements with the Independent Socialist TD, Tony Gregory ( in return for £ 100 million of investment in the Dublin North Inner City ; a deal dubbed the Gregory Deal ), the Independent Fianna Fáil TD Neil Blaney and three Workers ' Party TDs, which saw him return as Taoiseach for a second time.

Both ministers were sacked after some initial procrastination on Lynch's part, his innocent Minister for Justice, Micheál Ó Móráin, retired the day before and a fourth minister, Kevin Boland and his Parliamentary Secretary, resigned in sympathy with Haughey and Blaney.

Lord defeated Norman Betts, who was the perceived frontrunner, as well as Margaret-Ann Blaney, who, with Betts, would go on to serve in Lord's cabinet and Cleveland Allaby.

Blaney proved to be an innovative minister and his first task as minister was to prepare the groundwork for the referendum to scrap the proportional representation electoral system and replace it with the first-past-the-post voting system.

Blaney was unimpressed with the choice and, with the support of the like-minded Kevin Boland, he threw his hat in the ring, declaring himself to be the " Radical Republican " candidate.

There was general surprise when, in an incident known as the Arms Crisis, Blaney, along with Haughey, was sacked from Lynch's cabinet amid allegations of the use of the funds to import arms for use by the IRA.

Haughey and Blaney were subsequently tried in court along with an army Officer, Captain James Kelly, and Albert Luykx, a Belgian businessman who allegedly used his contacts to buy the arms.

This was opposed by other members of the Blaney family, including all seven children of Neil Blaney and his widow Eva who issued a press release prior to Niall Blaney's decision castigating the Fianna Fáil party and disassociating themselves from any so called ' truce ' with them.

It was also opposed by the Independent TD's Neil Blaney and Tony Gregory, with Blaney describing the agreement as " a con job ".

Fianna Fáil's Cecilia Keaveney lost her seat to the Fine Gael candidate Joe McHugh, with McDaid and Blaney being the two successful Fianna Fáil candidates.

The Minister for Agriculture, Neil Blaney, allegedly made plans with Captain James Kelly to import weapons from continental Europe.

Along with Donal Blaney, Greg Smith, and Ben Pickering he helped establish the Young Britons ' Foundation and is chairman of it.

Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton, and G. W. Bailey co-star, with Tim Blaney providing the voice of robot " Number 5.

The medieval castle was originally built in the 13th century by Stuart Cullen, an early Anglo-Norman warrior and landowner in North Kildare. He had been given extensive lands in the area of Kill, Celbridge and Mainham by his brother, Rurai Blaney, who had come to Ireland with ' Strongbow ', the Earl of Pembroke.

He also claimed that Blaney and Haughey were not implicated with the arms in question and that the wrong people had been sacked.

* May 28 – Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney appear in Dublin's Bridewell Court charged, along with Albert Luykx and Capt.

Haughey, then Minister for Finance and the hardline Blaney, Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries who was from the Donegal North – East constituency bordering Northern Ireland were members of the subcommittee, along with Pádraig Faulkner and Joseph Brennan.

Neil Blaney allegedly made plans with Captain James Kelly to import weapons from continental Europe.

It consisted of three Italian MEPs ( Lega Nord two, Sardinian Action Party one ), two Spanish MEPs ( one each for the PNV and the Andalusian Party, PA ), one Belgian MEP ( for VU ), one French MEP ( Union of the Corsican People, UPC ), one British MEP ( SNP ) and one Irish MEP ( Neil Blaney, independent ).

** Arms Crisis in the Republic of Ireland: Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney are dismissed as members of the Irish Government, for accusations of their involvement in a plot to import arms for use by the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland.

Reynolds became interested in politics at the time of the Arms Crisis in 1970, a hugely controversial episode in modern Irish history which saw two Cabinet ministers, Neil Blaney and Charles Haughey, sacked from the government over an alleged attempt to import arms to Northern Ireland.

Neil Terence Columba Blaney ( 1 October 1922 – 8 November 1995 ) was an Irish politician.

In 1969, when conflict broke out in Northern Ireland, Blaney was one of the first to express extremely strong Irish republican views, views which contradicted the policy of the Irish Government, in support of Northern nationalists.

In 1970 the Arms Trial resulted in two cabinet ministers from the Republic of Ireland government – Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney – being sacked for attempting to illegally import arms for the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.

The Arms Crisis or Arms Trial () was a political scandal in the Republic of Ireland in 1970, when two cabinet ministers — Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney — were removed from office for allegedly attempting to illegally import arms for the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.

On 28 May 1970, Haughey and Blaney went on trial in Dublin, together with an Irish Army intelligence officer, Captain James Kelly, a Belfast republican leader named John Kelly and Belgian businessman and former Nazi Albert Luykx, who had allegedly agreed to use his contacts to acquire the weapons.

He served as chair of the group along with the hardline Irish Republican Neil Blaney and Danish left-wing Eurosceptic Jens-Peter Bonde. Throughout the 1980s, he promoted international anti-prohibitionist campaigns on drugs and was one of the founders of the Radical Antiprohibitionist Coordination ( CORA ) and of the International Antiprohibitionist League.

Niall Blaney ( born 29 January 1974 ) is a former Irish politician.