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Former taoiseach dies at 85

Michael McHugh
Friday 20 May 2011 00:00 BST
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Tributes were paid to the former Irish taoiseach Garret FitzGerald, yesterday, who died aged 85.

The former Fine Gael leader was behind the Anglo-Irish Agreement with Margaret Thatcher in 1985 which produced closer relations between the two countries on Northern Ireland.

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