Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan of Ireland
In 1973, Lenihan was appointed a member of the second delegation from the Oireachtas to the European Parliament.
In 1982, when Fianna Fáil regained power for ten months, Lenihan was Minister for Agriculture, the announcement in the Dáil being greeted by a sustained round of laughter on the opposition benches.
In January 1990 leaks to the media suggested that Lenihan was considering seeking the Fianna Fáil nomination in the Irish presidential election, which was due in November 1990.
Lenihan was generally perceived as an unbeatable candidate, though he did receive a late challenge for the nomination from cabinet colleague John Wilson.
However, in September 1990 Lenihan was formally nominated as his party's candidate.
During leadership campaigns against Charles Haughey in the 1980s, Lenihan had regularly appeared on television to insist that Fianna Fáil was not divided, even as ministers were resigning and fisticuffs broke out in the environs of Leinster House.
As a result, Lenihan was liked but mistrusted.
Subsequently, it was reported in books by authors Stephen O'Byrnes and Raymond Smith, and by many political journalists in newspaper articles (some of whom had Lenihan as their source) that Lenihan had been one of the people who had made phone calls to Áras an Uachtaráin, the President's official residence, on the night in question, in order to persuade or pressurise Hillery to refuse a dissolution.
The Irish Times, which was aware that Lenihan himself was Duffy's source for the original article claim, published, with Duffy's agreement, a newspaper story confirming that Lenihan had indeed made the controversial phone calls to the Áras.
The Progressive Democrats, Fianna Fáil's coalition partner, told Charles Haughey that unless Lenihan was either dismissed or an inquiry set up into the events of January 1982 it would pull out of government, support the opposition motion and force a general election.
Lenihan was the first, and so far the only, Fianna Fáil candidate to lose an Irish presidential election.
Lenihan remained active in politics right up to his death in 1995.
Lenihan was born in Dublin in 1959.
Lenihan is married to Patricia Ryan and they have two teenagers one girl and one boy.
Lenihan is a member of a famous Irish political dynasty.
Lenihan was the only Fianna Fáil TD to be promoted to the cabinet, as Minister for Justice, a post which his father had held from 1964 to 1968.
Brian Lenihan was the name of two Irish politicians, father and son, who held government office in the Republic of Ireland.
Lenihan was a Senator in Seanad Éireann on two occasions (1957-1961 and 1973-1977), was appointed Tánaiste in 1987 and was a defeated candidate for the office of President of Ireland in 1990.
Brian Lenihan was born in Dundalk in County Louth.
4 In 1982, when the party regained power for ten months, Lenihan was given the post of Minister for Agriculture.
In 1987 Fianna F?l returned to power and Lenihan was for the third and final time appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs, with the additional post of T?aiste (deputy prime minister.
Mara let it be known to the Irish media that Brian Lenihan was considering seeking the Fianna F?l nomination to become the party candidate for the Irish presidential election, which was due in November that year.
Lenihan was generally perceived as unbeatable for the presidency, though he did receive a late challenge for the nomination from cabinet colleague John Wilson, as fears grew among the party leadership that the party, in a minority government, would have great difficulty holding Lenihan's seat in a by-election, whereas Wilson had a 'safe seat' the party would have no difficulty in holding.
During leadership heaves against Haughey in the 1980s Lenihan had regularly appeared on RT?/A> television to insist that Fianna F?l was not divided, even as ministers were resigning from cabinet, and when Haughey supporters physically assaulted an opponent of Haughey's, ex-minister Jim Gibbons, in the environs of Leinster House, the Republic's parliament building.
However on 17 May 1990 Lenihan had confirmed his participation in one on the record interview with a post-graduate student and journalist, Jim Duffy, who was researching the presidency of Ireland for a thesis and for a series of newspaper articles in The Irish Times.
The minority party in government, the Progressive Democrats, told Haughey that unless Lenihan was either dismissed or an inquiry set up into the events of January 1982 it would resign from government, support the opposition motion and so force a general election on the issue.
Lenihan was the first Fianna F?l candidate (and to date the only one) to lose an Irish presidential election.
Lenihan remained active in politics right up to his death five years later.
Brian Lenihan was a complex Irish politician.
Finance minister Brian Lenihan was left with little choice but to do something – anything – as Sheehy and his Bank of Ireland counterpart, Brian Goggin, paid him a visit in Government Buildings one night and told him deposits were.
Finance Minister Brian Lenihan has seen Ireland become a riskier investment proposition than Spain and Portugal.
However, Mr Lenihan has already said that he is very.
Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan has announced that under the Finance Bill, 20% of the funds gathered under the new income levy will come from those paying the top 3% rate.
An article about Brian Lenihan seen on finfacts.
Brian Lenihan is calling it a levy so that it can be applied to all your income, and not your income less your income tax credits, for example.
Brian Lenihan is listed in Best Lawyers in America and Massachusetts Super Lawyers in the area of corporate law and is recognized in ChambersUSA as a leading lawyer in the area of private equity, buyout and venture capital.
Lenihan is also listed as a recommended lawyer in the area of cross-border private equity and venture capital in PLC -Which Lawyer.
week Brian Lenihan was browsing through the annual report of Anglo Irish Banks.
Lenihan is not a natural number cruncher , but according to witnesses, he scratched his head.
The Government is reportedly set to tell trade unions that it plans to make major reductions in public service pay rates this year.
THOUSANDS of newly unemployed people will be hit with an extra tax on their redundancy payments, the Department of Finance confirmed last night.
Finance Minister Brian Lenihan has insisted that he has the full support of the Taoiseach despite media reports of a rift between the two men over how to cut public spending.
Finance Minister Brian Lenihan has today insisted that he has the full support of the Taoiseach despite media reports of a rift between the two men.
Justice Minister Brian Lenihan has stepped back from the controversial issue of fixed-odds betting terminals in Ireland’s betting shops, saying that a decision on the issue will be taken by the soon-to-be-formed cross party committee.
Here are some facts about Lenihan: * Born in Dublin in 1959, Lenihan was educated at Trinity College.
Born in Dublin in 1959, Lenihan was educated at Trinity College Dublin and Cambridge University.
A lawyer by training, Lenihan has also worked as a lecturer in law at Trinity.
With little known experience in finance, Lenihan is considered a safe pair of hands and a trusted ally of Cowen.
Brian Lenihan has contributed 2 photos to this site.
Attitude to immigrants Lenihan was involved in.
Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan has said that deposits in Irish banks are secure and that bank customers can rest confident in the knowledge that their money is safe.
Mr Lenihan said that he is prepared to review the statutory guarantee limit for bank deposits, which is currently set at 20,000.
Mr Lenihan said that he did not believe it was helpful to speculate about the legal size of the deposit guarantee in the current circumstances because the Government wants to ensure that all deposits are safe.
Mr Lenihan said that the Government will take whatever steps are required to ensure the stability of the Irish banking system and that nothing would stand in his way from ensuring that stability in the present circumstances.
Mr Lenihan said that his own father was not a wealthy man and that, very much to Mr.
When asked what Brian Lenihan Senior may have known about those who contributed to his medical fund, Brian Lenihan said that he formed the impression that his father may not have known the full extent of who made donations.
Finance Minister Brian Lenihan has insisted that he has the full support of the Taoiseach despite media reports.
Finance Minister Brian Lenihan has even accused Britain of pursuing a beggar-thy-neighbour strategy.
On Tuesday, The Irish Times reported that sources close to Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan had made clear that a substantial portion of the 2 billion savings would have.
Brian Lenihan was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
Lenihan was also Senator in Seanad Éireann.
A piece in this mornings Indo reports that Brian Lenihan is eager to make the acquaintance of Irelands missing millionaires, who were not identified in a bank report last year (see Irish Patriotism, the Rich and Tax Returns.
Brian Lenihan has been criticized quite a bit since taking charge of the finance ministry.
Today chief executives from the six Irish banks and building societies that are covered by the State guarantee scheme have separate meetings with Finance Minister Brian Lenihan (right.
Lenihan says that all government depar.
Brian Lenihan has bounced back so often in the last six months, his detractors see it as proof that he was over-inflated from the start.
Respected but never adulated in the way his boss is by the parliamentary party, Lenihan has taken the brunt of their recriminations.
Ditto, Lenihan said in the Dil on Wednesday that the question of whether civil servants will have to pay the 200 car parking charge will be decided in the Finance Bill.
In his constituency of Dublin West, Brian Lenihan is deemed sufficiently popular to be able to sacrifice a chunk of his first-preference votes without endangering his seat.
Lenihan has also worked for House Republican Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO) covering a variety of issues including agriculture and energy, and earlier aiding the committee relations group of the House Republican Conference.
Lenihan was a volunteer for the Bush/Cheney presidential campaign.
Lenihan was a member of Hill Barlow where he was Chair of the Venture Capital Private Equity Group.
Lenihan is a member of the American, Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations.
Lenihan was on the task force of the Committee on Negotiated Acquisitions of the ABA Business Law Section that created the first annual "2005 Private Target Mergers Acquisitions Deal Points Study.