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McEllistrim, who was given much credit for this feat, was disappointed not to receive a promotion to a Junior Ministry.
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McEllistrim was a member of the so-called " gang of five " along with Seán Doherty, Mark Killilea, Jnr, Jackie Fahey and Albert Reynolds who started a lobbying campaign in favour of Haughey on the back benches of the party.
McEllistrim and was
When Lynch returned he was questioned on this by a Clare backbencher Dr Bill Loughnane along with Tom McEllistrim at a parliamentary party meeting.
When Lynch returned he was confronted openly by Síle de Valera, Dr Bill Loughnane, a noted hardline Republican backbencher, along with Tom McEllistrim, a member of Haughey's gang of five, at a parliamentary party meeting.
Thomas ( Tom ) McEllistrim ( 15 January 1932 – 25 February 2000 ) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
Born in Boherbee, County Kerry in 1932, McEllistrim was the son of the sitting Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála and War of Independence veteran, Tom McEllistrim.
In the 1977 general election McEllistrim was elected along with his running mate Kit Ahern.
McEllistrim became disillusioned with the Taoiseach and party leader Jack Lynch from then and began to believe that Charles Haughey was the right candidate for the party leadership.
McEllistrim believed that Lynch was about to retire and was particularly uncomfortable at the thought of George Colley succeeding Lynch.
McEllistrim was particularly vocal with regard to party policy towards Northern Ireland and, as he saw it, Lynch's apparent lack of sympathy towards the northern nationalist community.
Haughey won the leadership contest by a decisive margin and McEllistrim was rewarded by being appointed Minister of State at the Department of Finance with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works.
His son, Tom McEllistrim, was elected in Kerry North at the 2002 general election.
Fahey was instrumental in forming the so-called " gang of five " with Albert Reynolds, Mark Killilea, Tom McEllistrim and Seán Doherty.
Along with Jackie Fahey, Tom McEllistrim, Seán Doherty and Albert Reynolds, Killilea was one of the so-called " gang of five " that lobbied the parliamentary party for support for Charles Haughey in the event of the retirement of Jack Lynch.
It was also the first time that two Fianna Fáil TDs had been elected in the Kerry North constituency, the other deputy being Tom McEllistrim.
A group known as the " gang of five ", which consisted of Tom McEllistrim, Mark Killilea, Jnr, Seán Doherty, Jackie Fahey and Albert Reynolds, had tried to whip up support for Haughey within the party for the previous few months, as they had anticipated that a change of leadership was imminent.
McEllistrim and for
* 24 October-Tom McEllistrim, Fianna Fáil TD for Kerry North.
McEllistrim and .
This group, known as the " gang of five ," consisted of Jackie Fahey, Tom McEllistrim, Seán Doherty, Mark Killilea, Jnr and Albert Reynolds.
This group, known as the " gang of five ," consisted of Jackie Fahey, Tom McEllistrim, Seán Doherty, Mark Killilea and Albert Reynolds.
He became a member of the so-called " gang of five " with Jackie Fahey, Mark Killilea, Jnr, Tom McEllistrim and Seán Doherty which aligned itself to Charles Haughey and supported him in the subsequent leadership contest.
The other members were Albert Reynolds, Mark Killilea, Jnr, Tom McEllistrim and Jackie Fahey.
McEllistrim the younger succeeded his father by being elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1969 general election.
McEllistrim lost his seat at the 1987 general election by four votes to Dick Spring.
McEllistrim died aged 68 on 25 February 2000.
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He certainly didn't want a wife who was fickle as Ann.
He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.
He was riding between two warriors, who held him erect when he started to slump.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
Hague, like all who worked near the pits, was partly deafened from the constant assault against his eardrums.
Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.
Donna, his young wife, the girl who was both daughter and wife to him.
Lewis was a man who had made a full-time job of cow stealing.
He was a man, those neighbors testified later, who didn't have a friend in the world.
But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.
Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!
Out in the center of the circle the farmer, who was Dan, wasted no time when they came to the line, `` The farmer choose his wife ''.
`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??
Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.
`` You know who the other man was ''??
Present at the scene -- in addition to the dead man, who was indeed Louis Thor -- had been Thor's partner Bill Blake, and Antony Rose, an advertising agency executive who handled the zing account.
My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.
I don't even remember who wrote it but it was one of those 15th or 16th century poets.
If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.
The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.
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