Albert Reynolds RIP

[armaghniac]

I think this deserves a thread of its own, given the importance of the deceased to the peace process.

Albert Reynolds did a great deal to bring about the conditions for the 1994 ceasefire, which set the wheels in motion that led to any subsequent progress. This concentration on the peace process probably distracted him from other issues and may well have contributed to his short tenure as Taoiseach.

He was a businessman, he did great work in the previous decade in bringing Irish telecoms into the modern era in part because he realised the important to business of this. I imagine that had he continued to have influence in more recent years that he would not have been so quick to build an economy on people building and selling houses to each other, but might have shown some concern for the real economy and so limited the damage caused by speculators.

[Shamrock Shore]

Albert was a rough diamond and history will record him in a favourable light.

He had his political faults and at times was like a bull in a china shop  e.g. (temporary little arrangement, that wimmin for ya, John Unionist, crap crap crap) but this attitude, sometimes, was vital in helping to give birth to the Peace Process.

My own personal memories are:

- gatecrashing the nomination convention in 1977 in Mullingar when he was chosen to run for FF. There was a free bar and I loaded myself up with Coke (I was 10 at the time). Longford News that following Fri moaned about "snot nosed kids from Edgeworthstown running about the place"

- helped us get a phone in 1982 having waited five years for one.

- ringing my Dad from San Fran when Albert was Taoiseach to 'congraggulate' local club on winning the County Championship (haven't won it since  )

- sadly talking to him at a function in 2009 and seeing that the lights were dimming.

RIP Albert.

[Rossfan]

Albert Reynolds did a great deal to bring about the conditions for the 1994 ceasefire, which set the wheels in motion that led to any subsequent progress. This concentration on the peace process probably distracted him from other issues and may well have contributed to his short tenure as Taoiseach.

He was a businessman, he did great work in the previous decade in bringing Irish telecoms into the modern era in part because he realised the important to business of this. I imagine that had he continued to have influence in more recent years that he would not have been so quick to build an economy on people building and selling houses to each other, but might have shown some concern for the real economy and so limited the damage caused by speculators.

+1.
Another great Ros man gone from us.
Like others from or connected with our County he lead Ireland to being a better place.

[bcarrier]

His "one page man" approach was genius. It should be compulsory for all memos and reports.

[Bord na Mona man]

Remember the time he was going to burst the party and Gerry Collins was appealing to him not to!

[sans pessimism]

Is Syferus on holidays

[seafoid]

RIP

IMO he was a decent man , unlike certain other FF leaders.
I couldn't believe it when they announced the peace process. It was so easy to think our Northern Correspondent Poilin ni Chiarain would retire talking about a bombing last night on the Falls Road. Took a lot of guts to engage and believe in the project.

I think he brought McCreevy in from the wilderness as well, not one of his better days.

[Syferus]

Albert Reynolds did a great deal to bring about the conditions for the 1994 ceasefire, which set the wheels in motion that led to any subsequent progress. This concentration on the peace process probably distracted him from other issues and may well have contributed to his short tenure as Taoiseach.

He was a businessman, he did great work in the previous decade in bringing Irish telecoms into the modern era in part because he realised the important to business of this. I imagine that had he continued to have influence in more recent years that he would not have been so quick to build an economy on people building and selling houses to each other, but might have shown some concern for the real economy and so limited the damage caused by speculators.

+1.
Another great Ros man gone from us.
Like others from or connected with our County he lead Ireland to being a better place.

And look what happens when Rhus like P. Flynn and Enda get a sniff of power

RIP to Reynolds, just don't let Bertie give the eulogy..

[Milltown Row2]

Yes a lot of respect for the man, obviously his tenure in the Dall would have escaped us up here but his role in the peace process was vital, he always came across as the quiet determined man, how he got those feckers to agree on anything is beyond me.

RIP

[Armamike]

Came across as basically decent and down to earth and did so much for us up north.  His type aren't easily replaced in politics. RIP

[Rossfan]

RIP

IMO he was a decent man , unlike certain other FF leaders.
I couldn't believe it when they announced the peace process. It was so easy to think our Northern Correspondent Poilin ni Chiarain would retire talking about a bombing last night on the Falls Road. Took a lot of guts to engage and believe in the project.

I think he brought McCreevy in from the wilderness as well, not one of his better days.

I suppose every hero has one black spot 

[AZOffaly]

And the dogfood passports. I think that was Albert as well. By the way, is Bertie another Albert? Is that the most common name for a Taoiseach?

[Shamrock Shore]

Bertie is short, in this instance, to Bartholomew.

Some Arab lads got passports for investing in the C&D Factory but, shur, t'was harmless aul craic.

[seafoid]

Bertie is short, in this instance, to Bartholomew.

Some Arab lads got passports for investing in the C&D Factory but, shur, t'was harmless aul craic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq_tPH_ZBhs

[mylestheslasher]

I detest FF but I had a soft spot for Albert. He did a lot for the North and for Longford. He will be remembered fondly and that in itself is an achievement when you consider who was taoiseach before and after him. RIP.