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| Garret FitzGerald arriving for The Lisbon Treaty Count, 3 October 2009 (Photo: William Murphy) |
Thursday, 19 May 2011
Former Irish Prime Minister Garret Fitzgerald has died in Dublin at the age of 85.
Mr. Fitzgerald served twice as prime minister. He is credited with organizing the framework for peace in Northern Ireland while improving Irish-British relations.
He also served as Ireland's foreign minister before retiring from politics in 1992.
Mr. Fitzgerald died one day after Britain's Queen Elizabeth's visit to Dublin. Queen Elizabeth offered her deep sympathy to all those who have suffered as a consequence of Ireland and Britain's troubled past.
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