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	New Statesman - The New Statesman Profile - Derry Irvine
		Irvine, 61, has been a highly political Lord Chancellor, chairing a range of important cabinet committees and enjoying an unusually close personal relationship with the Prime Minister, whom he once tutored.
		Irvine, who headed the cabinet committee responsible for the proposals, was battling to keep it down.
		On freedom of information, Irvine picked up a reputation as a defender of the establishment point of view early on, when the legislation was being handled by the well-meaning David Clark, who lacked powerful friends.
	www.newstatesman.com /200111190015 (1695 words)

	Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander Andrew Mackay Irvine, Lord Irvine of Lairg, QC, PC (born June 23, 1940), known as Derry Irvine, is a British lawyer and political figure who served as Lord Chancellor under his former pupil Tony Blair.
		Irvine devised a measure to maintain the supremacy of Parliament while allowing Judges to declare Acts of Parliament not to be in compliance with the Convention.
		Irvine was known to be against such a policy and it was widely speculated that his departure had not been voluntary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Derry_Irvine (521 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Profile: Lord Irvine
		Lord Irvine was born Alexander Andrew Mackay Irvine in Inverness in Scotland on 23 June 1940, the son of a roofer and a waitress.
		Irvine met his wife Alison while she was married to the former Scottish first minister Donald Dewar, prompting a bitter fall-out between the two men.
		Irvine was Mr Blair's pupil-master - the barrister responsible for his training - and he is godfather to one of the prime minister's sons.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2968234.stm (874 words)

	Derry Irvine
		Alexander Andrew Mackay Irvine (born June 23, 1940), known as Derry Irvine or Lord Irvine of Lairg, is a British lawyer and political figure who was (probably the second to last) Lord Chancellor.
		Irvine is not generally regarded as a natural politician - he has never stood for elected office - and has occasionally faced unwanted controversy as Lord Chancellor.
		Soon after taking the job he had his official residence in the Palace of Westminster redecorated at a cost to the taxpayer of over half a million pounds, with hand-printed wallpaper accounting for £59,000 of that.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/de/Derry_Irvine.html (322 words)

	Politics \| Agitated Irvine and giggles in the tearoom
		Friend and foe agree that Lord Irvine's performance on January 9 was a seminal moment, which marked the death of the government's plans to allow only a limited number of elected peers.
		"Derry Irvine is an intellectual bully without a political bone in his body," the peer said.
		Lord Irvine's foes do recognise, however, that the discredited plans on the Lords are not of his making; in private, he is said to have no difficulty with a large number of elected peers.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4341796-107977,00.html (1032 words)

	derry
		Londonderry, or Derry (Doire in Irish), is both a city in Northern Ireland, and the county in which it is found.
		The old walled city of Derry lies on the west bank of the River Foyle, but the city has now covers both banks and is connected by two bridges.
		Derry is near the border with the Republic of Ireland, and serves much of North Donegal, as well as the west of the county of Londonderry.
	www.fact-library.com /derry.html (450 words)

	Just how low can Irvine go? - [Sunday Herald]
		It is not known if Irvine, who was sent to the US to treat his cocaine addiction, has had any visits from his father, Derry Irvine, the most powerful lawman in England and a mentor of Prime Minister Tony Blair, in whose Cabinet he sits.
		Irvine, a man whose reputation for intellectual arrogance sullies his laser-sharp approach to the law, has maintained a steadfast silence on his son's plight.
		Lord Irvine, the son of a Scottish slater and a waitress, who hauled himself up to riches and success through academic study, is attracted toÊintelligenceÊand,ÊinÊhis professional life at least, disdainful of those who do not measure up to his standards.
	www.sundayherald.com /26693 (1295 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Features - The fall of Derry Irvine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Derry Irvine would have been the first to agree with the Times’s assessment, of course.
		Irvine’s flat in Smith Square - one of the biggest in Westminster and home to his legendary art collection - is now on the market.
		Lord Irvine was by now beginning to attract attention for his decision to spend £650,000 of taxpayers’ money on redecorating the lord chancellor’s residence at the House of Lords.
	news.scotsman.com /features.cfm?id=958882004 (1685 words)

	Politics \| A law unto himself
		Derry Irvine's reluctant refusal of a £22,691 pay rise is just the latest in a series of gaffes that includes his £30,000 splurge on wallpaper.
		By 7am, Derry Irvine is being driven the short distance from his well-appointed flat in Westminster's luxurious Smith Square to his department in Victoria Street, where officials live in fear of the prime ministerial favourite.
		Amid reports that Irvine has put out feelers for a job in the City, one senior Labour figure says he does not expect Irvine to be invited to stay on after the next election in 2005.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4603806-107977,00.html (1710 words)

	The Scotsman - Top Stories - US court jails Derry Irvine's stalker son (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		THE SON of the Lord Chancellor Derry Irvine was jailed for 16 months yesterday for stalking and threatening to shoot a teenager.
		Lord Irvine was head of the legal chambers where Tony and Cherie Blair worked as barristers and he is godfather to one of the prime minister's sons.
		Lord Irvine ran into trouble last year when the Conservatives insisted he had failed to be "impartial and non-partisan" by writing to Labour-supporting barristers and solicitors inviting them to pay at least £200 to attend a fundraising dinner for the party.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1184562002 (826 words)

	What Planet Are They From?
		Lord Chancellor Derry Irvine believes that burglars should not be sent to jail for a first, or even second, offence.
		Irvine’s comments come after a machete-wielding burglar, with 51 previous convictions, was freed at the Old Bailey by Judge Simon Goldstein so he could write poems.
		Irvine doesn’t even think a second-time offender should be jailed, even though he may have been responsible for hundreds of unsolved burglaries, unless there are “aggravating features”.
	home.freeuk.net /minbu/planet.htm (475 words)

	New Statesman: He wants the press shackled and the Lords turned into a selectocracy. Who can stop the chief of Tony's ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Irvine, 61, has been a highly political Lord Chancellor, chairing a range of important cabinet committees and enjoying an unusually close personal relationship with the Prime Minister, whom he once tutored.
		Irvine, who headed the cabinet committee responsible for the proposals, was battling to keep it down.
		On freedom of information, Irvine picked up a reputation as a defender of the establishment point of view early on, when the legislation was being handled by the well-meaning David Clark, who lacked powerful friends.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4564_130/ai_80616794 (1541 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Early parole for Lord Chancellor's son
		The convict son of Lord Chancellor Derry Irvine is to be released early from the US prison where he is being held for stalking and carrying a concealed weapon.
		Irvine was placed in the unit after his lawyer said he could be targeted if other prisoners discovered his father was the head of the judiciary in England and Wales and a close friend of Tony Blair.
		Irvine is not thought to have received any visitors during his prison sentence, although the Lord Chancellor is said to be standing by his son.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/americas/2668493.stm (512 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - International - Irvine son facing 15 years over stalking charges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		LORD Chancellor Derry Irvine’s 25-year-old son Alastair is behind bars in the United States today facing more than 15 years in prison after being charged with stalking a teenage blonde and threatening to shoot her boyfriend.
		When her live-in partner Karel Taska asked the young Irvine to stop, he is accused of turning up to the tanning centre with a handgun and threatening to kill or seriously injure the 19-year-old 15 stone American football player, who, like his girlfriend, is studying at Orange County California University.
		Alastair Irvine is currently being held in the tough Orange County jail in California facing seven charges which he is expected to deny when his trial opens next week.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=831102002 (790 words)

	Berkeley Daily Planet
		Irvine is the son of Lord Chancellor Alexander “Derry” Irvine, head of Britain’s judiciary and a senior member of the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair.
		Authorities said Alastair Irvine became infatuated with the 19-year-old woman, telephoning and showing up at the salon, even though she repeatedly told him she wasn’t interested and had a boyfriend.
		Irvine threatened the boyfriend and threw acid on his truck in June, causing $5,700 in damage, prosecutors said.
	www.berkeleydaily.org /article.cfm?archiveDate=10-25-02&storyID=15654 (207 words)

	New Statesman: Interview: Lord Irvine of Lairg. It's both wrong and politically stupid for judges to challenge ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is Lord Irvine of Lairg, the son of an Inverness slater who has made a fortune at the Bar and who was summoned to the House of Lords in 1987, when Neil Kinnock was Labour leader.
		As such, Derry Irvine will be a central figure in the management of Labour's programme of constitutional reform, as well as carrying responsibility for potentially ambitious reforms of the courts, legal aid and both family and criminal law.
		Irvine has also been under attack from liberals in his own profession for the way last year he slapped down Britain's increasingly outspoken judges, who were at the time locked in unprecedented conflict with Howard, having overturned a series of Home Office actions by the use of judicial review.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_n4313_v125/ai_19138501 (1387 words)

	The Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, Baron Alexander Irvine of Lairg
		Alexander Irvine and Richard Field were flown first class to Singapore by the Chungs to set the wheels of justice in motion.
		Alastair Irvine - the 25-year-old son of Lord Chancellor Lord Irvine of Lairg, a member of Prime Minister Tony Blair's government - was sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty to six charges in a deal with prosecutors.
		You appear to be privileged to know Irvine as "Derry." However, I am sure that the Chungs, and others he represented, were not fortunate enough to be on such familiar terms with him.
	www.escapefromparadise.com /NewFiles/ai.html (819 words)

	Spot the difference between Derry Irvine and Cardinal Wolsey Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
		In a year, Tom went from being a Dean to an Archbishop; one minute Derry was a mere lawyer in his own set of chambers, the next he had the highest judicial office in the land.
		Derry turned his big, bovine eyes on the fellow and said with real interest: "In what way?" The MP shifted in his seat, he hadn't expected this, and stuttered that Derry would be nowhere without the prime minister's patronage.
		Derry blandly replied that he owed his position to the prime minister in exactly the same way as any other cabinet minister.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20030210/ai_n12672014?lstpn=search_sampler&lstpc=search&lstpr=external&lstprs=other&lstwid=1&lstwn=search_results&lstwp=body_middle (827 words)

	CultureNorthernIreland
		City of Derry Guitar Festival returns to pluck your strings
		Children's story by the Earl of Erne given new lease of life
		The Opera Theatre Company bring Handel's Orlando to Belfast and Derry
	www.culturenorthernireland.org (410 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Legacy of man who compared himself to Wolsey
		Derry Irvine's departure will be seen as the moment when Tony Blair finally came of age.
		This culminated in the embarassing spectacle of Lord Irvine, described by friends as "a mixture of arrogance and insecurity", comparing himself to Cardinal Wolsey, Henry VIII's all-powerful lord chancellor.
		One admirer suggested that the departure of Lord Irvine marked a significant generational change as a key ally of John Smith, the late Labour leader, leaves.
	www.guardian.co.uk /guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,976410,00.html (1252 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Lord Chancellor's son to face trial
		The son of Lord Chancellor Derry Irvine is to stand trial in the US next month, charged with stalking and threatening to shoot a teenager.
		Alastair Irvine, 25, was arrested in California in June and is accused of targeting 19-year-old Karel Taska after becoming obsessed with his girlfriend, Nicole Healy.
		Mr Irvine, who flew to the US for help with a drug problem, denies all the charges against him and plans to appeal for the case to be dismissed.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/2242224.stm (523 words)

	JS Online: Charge Dropped Against Official's Son (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Irvine, 25, was arrested June 21 for allegedly throwing a caustic chemical on a neighbor's Mercedes-Benz and threatening the boyfriend of a woman he met at a tanning salon.
		Irvine has pleaded innocent and remained jailed in lieu of $100,000 bail.
		Irvine's attorney, James D. Riddet, successfully argued to have a vandalism charge involving a neighbor of Irvine dismissed.
	www.jsonline.com /news/nat/ap/oct02/ap-chancellor's-so101302.asp?format=print (223 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Politics \| Anger at Lord Irvine's £22,000 rise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lord Irvine's 12.6% increase comes as teachers and members of the armed forces were given increases of around three per cent.
		Lord Irvine faced criticism earlier this month over revelations that his pension package from the stage will be worth £2m when he retires, added to any private pensions from his career as a barrister.
		From the day he was appointed in 1997, Lord Irvine became entitled to an index-linked pension of £90,000 a year for life, a widow's pension, and a tax-free lump sum of £180,000.
	212.58.240.133 /2/hi/uk_news/politics/2738975.stm (540 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Do not dismiss Derry
		Derry Irvine may be a first-class lawyer, but when it comes to politics he definitely belongs in the B-team.
		It now emerges that Lord Irvine signed a letter inviting lawyers to a Labour bash earlier this month where they would be squeezed for donations.
		Mega-brain Irvine was too dim to realise the glaring inappropriateness of his actions.
	www.guardian.co.uk /leaders/story/0,3604,440212,00.html (592 words)

	Taxpayers Money 5
		Holyrood officials said the desk may not be cheap compared to a flatpack but is extraordinary value for money for what it is and should last 100 years.
		Lord Chancellor Derry Irvine will pocket an incredible £90,000-a-year pension and a £180,000 lump sum payout when he stands down.
		Derry Irvine is set to blow up to £100MILLION of taxpayers’ money on a lavish makeover for his department’s offices.
	home.freeuk.net /minbu/taxpay5.htm (766 words)

	GunBroker.com Message Forums - Lord Irvine's son held in US on stalking and gun c
		In a statement issued by his department, Derry Irvine said he and the rest of his family were standing by Alastair Irvine, 25.
		Alastair Irvine is understood to be accused of stalking Nicole Healy, 19, a management student at Orange County California University.
		Irvine is further accused of threatening her boyfriend, Karel Taska, also 19, and damaging his Dodge pick-up truck, the paper reports.
	forums.gunbroker.com /topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=26659 (361 words)

	Derry Irvine, barón Irvine de Lairg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Irvine ideó una dimensión de mantener la supremacía del parlamento mientras que permitía que los jueces declaren actos del parlamento para no estar de acuerdo con la convención.
		La reputación de Irvine deriva de sus habilidades como abogado más bien que de ésas como político, y él hizo frente de vez en cuando a controversia como señor canciller.
		Irvine era conocido para estar contra tal plan de acción y fue especulado extensamente que su partida no había sido voluntaria.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/de/Derry%20Irvine,%20bar%F3n%20Irvine%20de%20Lairg.htm (544 words)

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