However, since the contras failed to win widespread popular support or military victories within Nicaragua, since opinion polls indicated that a majority of the U. S. public was not supportive of the contras, since the Reagan administration lost much of its support regarding its contra policy within Congress after disclosure of CIA mining of Nicaraguan ports, and since a report of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research commissioned by the State Department found Reagan's allegations about Soviet influence in Nicaragua " exaggerated ", Congress cut off all funds for the contras in 1985 by the third Boland Amendment.

The Boland Amendment had first been passed by Congress in December 1982.

Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress.

Direct funding of the Contras insurgency had been made illegal through the Boland Amendment, the name given to three U. S. legislative amendments between 1982 and 1984 aimed at limiting US government assistance to the Contras militants.

In violation of the Boland Amendment, senior officials of the Reagan administration continued to secretly arm and train the Contras and provide arms to Iran, an operation they called " the Enterprise ".

In 1982, the Congress, passed the Boland Amendment.

These UCLA ’ s would “ sabotage ports, refineries, boats and bridges, and try to make it look like the contras had done it .” In January 1984, these UCLA ’ s performed their most famous, or infamous, operation, the last straw that led to the ratifying of the Boland Amendment, the mining of several Nicaraguan harbors

But from the administration ’ s point of view, the mines did their worst damage on Capitol Hill ratifying of the Boland Amendment .”

After the ratification of the Boland Amendment, the secret supply network directed by Lt. Col. North became active.

U. S. funding of the Contras by appropriated funds spent by intelligence agencies had been prohibited by the Boland Amendment.

The U. S. Congress did not authorize sufficient funds for the Contras ' efforts, and the Boland Amendment barred further funding.

The first Boland Amendment was to the House Appropriations Bill of 1982, which was attached as a rider to the Defense Appropriations Act of 1983, named for the Massachusetts Democrat, Representative Edward Patrick Boland, who authored it.

Amendment H. AMDT. 461 by Boland to H. R.

* Edward P. Boland, JD 1936, former United States Congressman ; author of the Boland Amendment

Direct military aid by the United States was eventually forbidden by the Boland Amendment of the Defense Appropriations Act of 1983.

The Boland Amendment was extended in October 1984 to forbid action by not only the Defense Department, but also to include the Central Intelligence Agency.

The Boland Amendment was a compromise because the U. S. Democratic Party did not have enough votes for a comprehensive ban on military aid.

Boland's most famous work as a Congressman was the 1982 Boland Amendment, which blocked further funding of the Contras in Nicaragua after the Central Intelligence Agency had supervised acts of sabotage without notifying Congress.

McGoohan also stated that he was influenced by his experience from theater, including his work in Orson Welles ' 1955 play Moby Dick Rehearsed and the 1962 BBC teleplay The Prisoner by Bridget Boland.

The screenplay is an adaptation by Bridget Boland, John Hale and Richard Sokolove of the 1948 play by Maxwell Anderson ; Anderson's blank verse format was retained for only portions of the screenplay, such as Anne's soliloquy in the Tower of London, but then again, Anderson did not use blank verse throughout the play either, only in portions of it.

Michael Burger was chosen as host of this revived version of the show, while Paul Boland served as its announcer.

The other side, including what became the town of Little Mountain, was owned by Abraham N. Boland.

Abraham Noah Boland was appointed as postmaster of the Little Mountain Post Office in 1888.

The town was incorporated and Boland became the first mayor of the town.

Later a one-room school building was built on an acre of land donated by Noah Boland.

The first of the chiefs was Fearchar, Earl of Ross from the O ' Beolain ( Ó Beólláin, Boland, Bolan ) family, also known as ' Fearchar Mac-an-t-sagairt ' ( meaning " son of the priest ") of Applecross.

Boland resigned in sympathy, while Micheál Ó Móráin was dismissed one day earlier in a preemptive strike to ensure a subservient Minister for Justice was in place when the crisis broke.

Poet Eavan Boland said: " I was not then, nor am I now, comfortable with the idea of belonging to something where there are exemptions involved ," although she added that she would " hate to see it disappear ".

It was based on the 1958 novel by John Boland and adapted by Bryan Forbes, who also starred in the film.

The decision in the late 1950s to demolish a row of Georgian houses in Kildare Place and replace them with a brick wall was greeted with jubilation by a republican minister at the time, Kevin Boland, who said they stood for everything he opposed.

Four ministers, Charles Haughey, Neil Blaney, Kevin Boland and Micheál Ó Móráin, were either sacked, or resigned, or simply retired from the government due to the scandal that was about to unfold.

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.

Boland resigned in sympathy, while Micheál Ó Móráin was dismissed one day earlier in a preemptive strike to ensure that he was not the Minister for Justice when the crisis broke.

Following his expulsion from Fianna Fáil, Kevin Boland tried to persuade Blaney to join the Aontacht Éireann party he was creating but Blaney declined.

Gerald Boland (; 25 May 1885 – 5 January 1973 ) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician.

The poem inspired a 1959 film of the same name by George Morrison and a poem by the same name by Eavan Boland.

Derek Boland ( 15 January 1965 – 15 November 2009 ), better known by his stage name Derek B, was a British rapper.

Younger men such as Brian Lenihan, Charles Haughey, Patrick Hillery and Michael Hilliard were all given their first Cabinet portfolios by Lemass, and ministers who joined under de Valera, such as Jack Lynch, Neil Blaney and Kevin Boland were promoted by the new Taoiseach.

In 1892 the church was given a building of its own thanks to donations of land and money by the Boland family.

The very first ( Western ) Stormers jersey and logo in 1998 combined the colours of the three Unions who made up the regional franchise – WP, SWD and Boland.

For the 2005 / 06 season, Harvey played with the South African provincial side Nashua-Western Province Boland, where he also coached and commentated, sometimes doing two or all three at once.

Using his sharp breaking curve, Boland once struck out Babe Ruth three times in one game.

In September 2012, executive producer Adam Boland announced that the show would extend to three hours on Saturday from October.