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Ireland's Reluctant President
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8246c2d2-9512-4fff-b07f-49f3d638d04a/10431619-5CB0-48D8-ACE5-40505E0344BF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dr-patrick-hillery-reluctant-president-of-ireland-808664.html" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dr-patrick-hillery-reluctant-president-of-ireland-808664.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.independent.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dr-patrick-hillery-reluctant-president-of-ireland-808664.html"><P>The former president of Ireland Patrick Hillery had a long political career in which periods of comparative inactivity were interspersed with moments of intense controversy. The disputes often involved the most vital of questions, such as whether the Irish Republic should stray from the path of peace at the outbreak of the Northern Ireland Troubles, and whether governments should stand or fall.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dr-patrick-hillery-reluctant-president-of-ireland-808664.html"><P>Throughout such crises he was viewed as a man of principle, so that many of the tributes which followed his death described him as a figure of integrity. The fact that he served as President of the Republic for 14 years from 1976, being elected unopposed for two terms, is cited as a measure of his acceptability across the Irish political spectrum.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/10431619-5CB0-48D8-ACE5-40505E0344BF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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