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Liam Cosgrave RIP(Mod warning in op and #174)

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  • #2
    Huexotzingo
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    R.I.P.

    Glad he got to see the 1916 commemoration.


  • #3
    youtube!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,265 ✭✭✭youtube!


    I thought he had died years ago! Some age, my dad used to say he was Ireland's last true great leader .


  • #4
    Badabing
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    He was no Charlie Haughey


  • #5
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    Badabing wrote: »
    He was no Charlie Haughey

    Thank god for that at least!


  • #6
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Badabing wrote: »
    He was no Charlie Haughey

    good for him


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  • #7
    Beechwoodspark
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    Before my time but he was a gentleman by all accounts


  • #8
    Arthur Daley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,119 ✭✭✭Arthur Daley


    A good innings. He was active enough 18 months ago at the 1916 ceremonies. Also a direct link back to the first Taoiseach W.T. Cosgrave


  • #9
    Gael23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,177 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    Arthur Daley wrote: »
    A good innings. He was active enough 18 months ago at the 1916 ceremonies. Also a direct link back to the first Taoiseach W.T. Cosgrave

    That link has gone now as he is the last of WT Cisgraves children. He was very poorly the last few months according to some reports


  • #10
    jbt123
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    Badabing wrote: »
    He was no Charlie Haughey

    And as such, he will be remembered with more respect...


  • #11
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    do we get a day off school ?


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  • #12
    subpar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 509 ✭✭✭subpar


    One of his best quotes " The definition of an honest man ---- someone that when you bribe him he stays bribed"

    Liam Cosgrave RIP


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
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    So now Enda is the oldest former Taoiseach at 66, a few months older than Bertie.


  • #14
    snowflaker
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    youtube! wrote: »
    I thought he had died years ago! Some age, my dad used to say he was Ireland's last true great leader .

    Really??? RIP etc but I wouldn't class him as a great leader.


  • #15
    Ulysses Gaze
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    Badabing wrote: »
    He was no Charlie Haughey

    thats-not-a-badthats-a-good-thing.jpg


  • #16
    snowflaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭snowflaker


    Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »
    So now Enda is the oldest former Taoiseach at 66, a few months older than Bertie.

    John Bruton is 70...


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    snowflaker wrote: »
    John Bruton is 70...

    Oh yeah, forgot he was Taoiseach.


  • #18
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Badabing wrote: »
    He was no Charlie Haughey

    True, he was modest and polite. He carried out major reforms family and labour law and significantly increased social welfare benefits. An honest politician.


  • #19
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Orlando Red Walnut wrote: »
    True, he was modest and polite. He carried out major reforms family and labour law and significantly increased social welfare benefits. An honest politician.

    indeed, he was no Charles Haughey


  • #20
    Badabing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,907 ✭✭✭Badabing


    Orlando Red Walnut wrote:
    True, he was modest and polite. He carried out major reforms family and labour law and significantly increased social welfare benefits. An honest politician.


    Free Travel


  • #21
    branie2
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    A great man


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  • #22
    RayM
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    I love a good state funeral. Although it won't be the same without Liam Cosgrave watching smugly as another ex-Taoiseach is lowered into the ground.


  • #23
    Juran
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,108 ✭✭✭Juran


    He voted against contraception in Ireland in the late 70's / early 80's .... against his own party's majority mandate .... I'm no fan. My grandmother bore 15 kids as the state and church made sure she has no access to contraception ( to keep them poor ) ... and yet cosgrave had only 3 kids. It was well known that people with money were able to buy a 'pill' from their buddy the doctor to prevent pregnancy back then but poor country folk had to be kept down by the Catholic Church and Cosgrove fully supported them.


  • #24
    Arthur Daley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,119 ✭✭✭Arthur Daley


    Was famously the last Taoiseach who would go home for his lunch.


  • #25
    The_Valeyard
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    Not a bad leader by all accounts, had to deal with with some serious things like the oil crises, contraception, issues with the president, The IRA, etc.



    RIP


  • #26
    Juran
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,108 ✭✭✭Juran


    To: The valeyard..... poor him, having to deal with contraception which affected women back then ... not the old men in his Dail which we see on old RTÉ news footage tonight.
    may he Rot in Peace ....


  • #27
    jojofizzio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,342 ✭✭✭jojofizzio


    fryup wrote: »
    do we get a day off school ?

    He's not the bishop so...no...does that still happen that kids get a day off if the bishop dies(I remember that happening when I was in primary school)


  • #28
    Roadtoad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 905 ✭✭✭Roadtoad


    That has to be the most expensive state pension ever, even discounting the team of Garda at the gate etc. (x Taoiseach 40+ years, xTD nearly as long)


  • #29
    philstar
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    Juran wrote: »
    To: The valeyard..... poor him, having to deal with contraception which affected women back then ... not the old men in his Dail which we see on old RTÉ news footage tonight.
    may he Rot in Peace ....

    wha :confused:


  • #30
    Sir Oxman
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    youtube! wrote: »
    I thought he had died years ago! Some age, my dad used to say he was Ireland's last true great leader .

    Really?


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  • #31
    jojofizzio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,342 ✭✭✭jojofizzio


    Roadtoad wrote: »
    That has to be the most expensive state pension ever, even discounting the team of Garda at the gate etc. (x Taoiseach 40+ years, xTD nearly as long)

    I can understand Bertie needing the Garda at the gate..but as for the rest of them..is that level of security really necessary???


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