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Have we any future Taoisigh?" Their father Brian, a 45-year-old dairy farmer, said he couldn't believe it when Trump placed his hands on his son's shoulders and posed for a picture.

At the time of the letter, Paddy Hill had been in jail while four different taoisigh (Irish prime ministers) took office: Liam Cosgrave, Jack Lynch, Garret Fitzgerald and Charles Haughey.

Among those who attended the service at the Church of the Annunciation in Rathfarnham, Dublin, were Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, former Taoisigh Bertie Ahern and Brian Cowen, as well as Fianna Fail leader Michael Martin.

Former presidents Mary McAleese and Mary Robinson, former taoisigh Bertie Ahern and Brian Cowen, Dublin Lord Mayor Criona Ni Dhalaigh as well as Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, Garda chief Noirin O'Sullivan and British ambassador to Ireland Dominick Chilcott were among the dignitaries.

Former presidents Mary McAleese and Mary Robinson, former taoisigh Bertie Ahern and Brian Cowen, Dublin Lord Mayor Criona Ni Dhalaigh, as well as Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, Garda chief Noirin O'Sullivan and British ambassador to Ireland Dominick Chilcott were among the dignitaries.

During all of this, a succession of wise Taoisigh restrained popular outrage about the egregious mishandling of the Northern situation by a succession of British (mainly Tory) governments, who were beholden to the intransigent Unionists for their parliamentary majority.

Bertie's handlers claim that since the TV cameras went into the Dail in 1994, all Taoisigh wore a bit of slap.

(110) "1798 Commemoration Discussion Document," dated August 1996, Roinn an Taoisigh Library: 1798 Bicentenary Files.

Lenihan had been a TD (member of parliament)since 1961 and had served under three different taoisigh (prime ministers) in nine different Fianna Fail administrations.

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