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| Former Irish prime minister Garret FitzGerald dies | Former Irish prime minister Garret FitzGerald dies |
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| Former Irish prime minister Dr Garret FitzGerald has died in hospital in Dublin after a short illness. | Former Irish prime minister Dr Garret FitzGerald has died in hospital in Dublin after a short illness. |
| Dr FitzGerald, who was 85, served twice as taoiseach between 1981 and 1987 at the head of two coalition governments. | Dr FitzGerald, who was 85, served twice as taoiseach between 1981 and 1987 at the head of two coalition governments. |
| He was Fine Gael taoiseach at the time of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement in 1985. | He was Fine Gael taoiseach at the time of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement in 1985. |
| He retired from the Dail in 1992, but still took part in political campaigns, particularly on the Nice and Lisbon Treaties. | |
| Dr FitzGerald, a former economics lecturer, was elected to the Seanad (the Irish Senate) in 1965 and the Dail in 1969. | |
| When Fine Gael entered Government in 1973 he was appointed foreign affairs minister. | |
| He also played a leading role in the Sunningdale Agreement negotiations which led to the short-lived power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland. | |
| Seamus Mallon, former SDLP deputy first minister, said he was "saddened on a personal and political level". | |
| Mr Mallon said he admired the approach he had brought to his role as taoiseach and the political process. |