It's good to see the Fianna Fail party under Mr Ahern's leadership returned to power in Ireland.
Gerry O'Hara says this is simply untrue and that the Fianna had no access to weapons or explosives.
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Pay deals are breaching the incomes policy agreed between the Fianna Fail government of Bertie Ahern and the trade unions.
Mr Ward has also claimed that he was the leader of the Fianna, the junior wing of the IRA in Derry.
When first suggested by councillors in the Irish capital, the proposal was met with opposition from the Fianna Fail party, which was reluctant to give Geldof the award.
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However, a Sinn Fein councillor in Derry has made a statement to the inquiry in which he says that he was the leader of the Fianna, directly challenging Mr Ward's claims.
The Fianna Fail candidate, Brian Lenihan, was sacked as deputy prime minister by his old friend Charles Haughey at the insistence of his coalition partners, the Progressive Democrats, in a row over whether phone calls had been made to President Hillery asking him not to dissolve the Dail in 1982.
But the opposition Fianna Fail party has indicated it will support the government and campaign for a yes vote in May.
The new taoiseach, the son of a Fianna Fail TD, made Mary Coughlan, the daughter and niece of Fianna Fail TDs, his tanaiste or deputy prime minister.
So, too, with the combination of Fianna Fail and the Progressive Democrats.
It is a concern shared by Brendan Smith, the local Fianna Fail TD.
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He said the current government in the Republic of Ireland was simply implementing the policies of the last Fianna Fail government.
He has kept his own politics strictly to himself, but probably inclines towards the conservatives of Fianna Fail who run the current coalition government.
The main parties are Fianna Fail, who won the most seats in the last election in 2007, Fine Gael, Labour, Sinn Fein and the Green Party.
But he fell to the persuasions of the headhunters of Fianna Fail, who were looking for a popular candidate for a Cork seat in the Dail, the Irish parliament.
One was the awkward bit of Britain in the north that Fianna Fail claimed for Ireland.
There is of course nothing wrong or illegal in soliciting donations for a political party, but commentators agreed that the exchange was likely to damage Mr Gallagher's campaign, associating him with the "toxic" memories of the era when Fianna Fail was in power.
The results reflected voter fury at the long-dominant Fianna Fail party, which was blamed for leading Ireland to the brink of bankruptcy.
Accepting that the comparisons are not exact, as of now, Fianna Fail seems set for the biggest loss of parliamentary seats since the Irish Home Rule party in the 1918 election.
Brian Cowen, Ireland's beleaguered prime minister, survived a confidence vote in his leadership of Fianna Fail, the main governing party.
Meanwhile Fianna Fail, the most nationalist of the Irish Republic's parties, is set to lead the next government in Dublin.
In the Republic, the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, said the Ireland's reputation as an exporter of high-quality meat products was being harmed and the main opposition party, Fianna Fail, has called for an independent inquiry.
Power in the Irish cabinet is now largely in the hands of this triumvirate of Fianna Fail aristocrats.
Comparing the coalition's performance to Fianna Fail's time in power, he said: "We knew that you couldn't just let the protagonists get on with it, the Irish government had a duty to lead".
In particular, it has mobilised support among the poor working class in Ireland's urban areas, who might otherwise back the prime minister's party, Fianna Fail.
Fianna Fail has called for the establishment of a dedicated unit within the Department of Justice to co-ordinate the Irish Republic's response to the McAleese report, including all forms of redress for the survivors.
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Fianna Fail and its ally, the Progressive Democrats, were expected to form a government.
Bertie Ahern, Fianna Fail's leader and the next Irish prime minister, has already met Mr Adams.
Mr Ahern's Fianna Fail party has traditionally been the most nationalist of the southern Irish political parties.
Fianna Fail was in power in the Republic continuously from 1997 to 2011, and was heavily involved in the Good Friday Agreement negotiations which helped to set up Northern Ireland's devolved administration at Stormont.
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