Search for ira speaker:Michael D Higgins (KildareStreet.com)

Broadcasting Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Oct 2008): Michael D Higgins: ...into an instrument of censorship. I remember members of the Progressive Democrats, when they were opposite, standing up and saying how the results of my action would be that everybody would join the IRA and denying there was any aspect of censorship involved. I held my views on that broadcasting issue since the time of a very fine intellectual debate between Dr. Conor Cruise O'Brien and...
Middle East Peace Process. (27 Nov 2007): Michael D Higgins: Hamas is more advanced than the IRA.

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