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the Taoiseach was on campus this evening

  • 03-10-2008 6:54pm
    #1
    deRanged
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    the gardai, chopper and press were there to see him meet with the president.

    I wish I had a longer lens with me but so it goes. he's in the middle of the scrum here:
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    and on the way into the president's office:
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  • #2
    KnifeWRENCH
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    Not quite as large a crowd as the one that flocked to see Bono last year! :D

    Do you know why he was there?


  • #3
    deRanged
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    According to RTE he's opening the Jack Lynch conference.
    rte.ie/news wrote:
    Taoiseach Brian Cowen will be among a number of speakers addressing the two-day Jack Lynch conference at University College Cork this weekend.

    Mr Cowen will officially open the conference titled 'Jack Lynch: politics and sport, personality and leadership' this evening at 5.35pm.

    The conference has been organised by the Department of History at UCC and honours the life and times of the man who was Taoiseach from 1966 to 1973 and from 1977 to 1979.
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    Ambassadors from Chile, South Africa, Croatia and the Czech Republic will also be among those attending tonight's official opening.

    Other speakers tomorrow will include Micheal O'Muircheartaigh on his sporting career, Dr Michael Kennedy, of the Royal Irish Academy on his foreign policy views and Dr John Walsh of the Department of History, Trinity College, on him as an educationalist.


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    xbox36016
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    big deal


  • #5
    Ri na hEireann
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    Darn it I missed him....There goes my chance to meet one of the most prolific statesmen of the 21st century....oh well


  • #6
    KnifeWRENCH
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    deRanged wrote: »
    According to RTE he's opening the Jack Lynch conference.

    Oh yeah, I remember getting the e-mail about that. It was open to the public, but you had to buy a ticket.


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