Former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald has blamed Ireland's dire economic state in 2009 on a series of " calamitous " government policy errors.

Former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald has said that he had the potential to be one of the best Taoisigh that the country ever had, had his preoccupation with wealth and power not clouded his judgement:

Former Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald was also a columnist.

Former Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader John Bruton said FitzGerald would ; stand out as a man who changed Ireland and that he had changed attitudes to in the Republic to Northern Ireland and to Europe and that he saw that Ireland could do best in Europe if it contributed creatively to goals and ambitions of other members.

Former Cumann na nGaedhael Attorney-General John A. Costello became Fine Gael's choice for Taoiseach.

Former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald has attributed Ireland's dire economic state in 2009, on a series of " calamitous " government policy errors by the then Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy, who between the years of 2000 and 2003, boosted public spending by 48pc while cutting income tax.

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, in a report in the Financial Times said that his decision in 2001 to create a new financial regulator was one of the main reasons for the collapse of the Irish banking sector and “ if I had a chance again I wouldn ’ t do it ”.

Former Taoiseach Brian Cowen used the lodge for this purpose on occasion, staying at the lodge while in Dublin.

:* Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.

Former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald, former British chancellor of the exchequer Nigel Lawson, Peter Sutherland and the former Chairman of ICI, Sir John Harvey-Jones, were among GPA's non-executive directors.

* 8 September – Former Taoiseach John Bruton is appointed EU Ambassador to Washington.

– Former Taoiseach Charles Haughey speaking to Hot Press writer John Waters in 1984.

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said his loyalties this time would be with the sitting TD ( Brady ), and there was no hope of Fianna Fáil winning two seats in the constituency.

The programme is thought to be important and influential to the field of politics in Ireland: Former President of Ireland Mary McAleese was a frequent contributor to the programme and, according to Noel Whelan of The Irish Times, " more often than not the first question asked of the Taoiseach raises something which was reported or said a few hours previously on Morning Ireland ".

* 2011 Dr Garret Fitzgerald, Former Taoiseach

Former Irish Taoiseach.

`` Former Vice President Nixon came out in support of President Kennedy's program for stepping up the arms race.

Former British Prime Minister Attlee says Eisenhower was not a `` great soldier ''.

Former Vice-President Richard M. Nixon in Detroit called for a firmer and tougher policy toward the Soviet Union.

The " Former Standard ," used for about 300 years or more in speech in refined language, was the " Schönbrunner Deutsch ", a sociolect spoken by the imperial Habsburg Family and the nobility of Austria-Hungary.

* 1956 – Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.

* 2007 – Former Deputy Director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.

* 1949 – Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband ; her daughter and 10 others are also killed.

* 1994 – Former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U. S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.

Former emphasis on presumed race, in which John A. Scott could write an article on Achaean blondness, compared to the dark locks of " Mediterranean " Poseidon, on the basis of hints in Homer, has been laid aside.

Former commissioner Pete Rozelle and Smith made the deal in about five minutes and the Atlanta Falcons brought the largest and most popular sport to the city of Atlanta.

Former Seattle Mariners manager and Diamondbacks bench coach Bob Melvin became the new manager after only a ten-day tenure for Backman.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ( who was famously mistaken for a " recent American immigrant " by French President Nicolas Sarkozy ), said " descendants of slaves did not get much of a head start, and I think you continue to see some of the effects of that.

Former Zenit St. Petersburg manager Dick Advocaat took over for the rest of the season.

* 1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.

Former Milan player Nils Liedholm was the manager at the time, with players such as Bruno Conti, Agostino Di Bartolomei, Roberto Pruzzo and Falcão.

* 1868 – Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.

* 1976 – Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.

* 2009 – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.

Former MSI members were however still the bulk of the new party and former MSI leader Gianfranco Fini was elected leader of the new party.

* Former Worker Medical Screening Program, U. S. Department of Energy

* 1993 – History of Northern Ireland: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.

Government Buildings house the Department of the Taoiseach, the Council Chamber, the Department of Finance and the Office of the Attorney General.

The President of Ireland, Patrick Hillery, and the Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, attended a memorial service for Mountbatten in St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin on 5 September 1979.

With the advent of a Provisional IRA ceasefire and the beginning of what became known as the Peace Process during the 1990s, the official view of the Rising became more positive and in 1996 an 80th anniversary commemoration at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin was attended by the Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael, John Bruton.

In 2005, the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, announced the government's intention to resume the military parade past the GPO from Easter 2006, and to form a committee to plan centenary celebrations in 2016.

The 90th anniversary was celebrated with military parade in Dublin on Easter Sunday, 2006, attended by the President of Ireland, the Taoiseach and the Lord Mayor of Dublin.

There is now an annual ceremony at Easter attended by relatives of those who fought, by the President, the Taoiseach, ministers, senators and TDs, and by usually large and respectful crowds.

The party has a membership of over 35, 000, and is presently the senior partner governing in a coalition with the Labour Party, with the Fine Gael party leader Enda Kenny serving as Taoiseach.

Following revelations at the Moriarty Tribunal on 16 February 1999, in relation to Charles Haughey and his relationship with AIB, former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald confirmed that AIB and Ansbacher wrote off debts of almost £ 200, 000 that he owed in 1993, when he was in financial difficulties because of the collapse of the aircraft leasing company, GPA, in which he was a shareholder.

* 1926 – Garret FitzGerald, 7th Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland ( d. 2011 )

Seven of the party's eight leaders have served as Taoiseach.

Although this phenomenon was nothing new, ( the most famous example being Neil Blaney's " Donegal Mafia ") it increased significantly from the early 90's particularly in the Dublin Region with former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern's " Drumcondra mafia " and the separate groups supporting Tom Kitt and Séamus Brennan in Dublin South largely separate from the official party structure.

The chart below shows a timeline of Fianna Fáil leaders and the Presidents of the Executive Council and Taoiseach.

In contrast, the only contact the Irish president has with the Irish government is through a formal briefing session given by the Taoiseach ( prime minister ) to the President.

For example, members of the Irish Cabinet are dismissed by the President on the advice of the Taoiseach ; in other instances, the head of state may be able to dismiss an office holder unilaterally ; other heads of state, or their representatives, have the theoretical power to dismiss any office-holder, while it is exceptionally rarely used.

::: The President shall, on the nomination of Dáil Éireann, appoint the Taoiseach.

::: The President may in absolute discretion refuse to dissolve Dáil Éireann on the advice of a Taoiseach who has ceased to retain the support of a majority in Dáil Éireann.

Loan words from the Irish language provide for a large amount of words unique to Hiberno-English, particularly in an official state capacity ( e. g. the head of government, the Taoiseach, and the parliament itself, the Oireachtas ).

* Éamon de Valera, Taoiseach and President of Ireland, born in New York City.

While the head of state is the popularly elected President of Ireland, this is a largely ceremonial position with real political power being vested in the indirectly elected Taoiseach ( prime minister ) who is the head of the government.

Party Chairman Dan Boyle and Déirdre de Búrca were nominated by the Taoiseach to Seanad Éireann after the formation of the Fianna Fáil – PD – Green Party government in 2007 and Niall Ó Brolcháin elected in December 2009.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern noted the symbolism in a 2006 address in Edinburgh: Island of Iona is a powerful symbol of relationships between these islands, with its ethos of service not dominion.

The Downing Street Declaration was issued on 15 December 1993 by Major and Albert Reynolds, the Irish Taoiseach, with whom he had a friendly relationship: an IRA ceasefire followed in 1994.