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  Ministers: Mary Harney TD
Mary Harney was appointed as Minister for Health and Children in September 2004, and reappointed following the 2007 General Election.
Previously, she was Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment from 1997 to 2002 and was re-appointed in June 2002, making history as the first woman to hold the title of Tánaiste and also to serve a second successive term.
Mary Harney was a founder member of the Progressive Democrats with Desmond O’Malley in 1985.
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  Mary Harney Information
Mary Harney (born 11 March, 1953) is an Irish politician who has been the leader of the Progressive Democrats (the sixth largest political party in Ireland) since 1993.
Mary Harney was born in Ballinasloe, County Galway in 1953.
Harney, at first, stated that she had no other way to travel that day until the European Commission became involved, she later admitted that using the plane was wrong.
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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mary Harney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Mary Harney (born 11 March 1953) is an Irish politician who has been the leader of the Progressive Democrats (the sixth largest political party in Ireland) since 1993.
Mary Harney is a Progressive Democrats TD in the Dublin Mid-West Constituency, first elected as in 1981 for Fianna Fáil.
Mary grew up in Dublin and was educated in Clondalkin and later, in Trinity College Dublin, where she studied for a B.A. in Economics.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mary-Harney   (4013 words)

  
 Progressive Democrats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The PD leader, Mary Harney, introduced Ireland's first minimum wage in 2000 while she was Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment.
Mary Harney became the new leader and the first woman to lead any of the major Irish political parties.
On 7 September 2006 Mary Harney announced that she was stepping down as leader of the Progressive Democrats and that she would remain on as leader until a successor was chosen.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ben Harney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Harney was light skinned with red hair; early in his career he played with African American theater troops, but later in his career he represented himself as white.
While Ben Harney unfortunately was neglected by commercial recording studios during his lifetime, in 1925 a folklorist recorded Harney singing an example of an early ragtime song on a dictaphone phonograph cylinder, and this recording has survived.
Harney was the son of Benjamin Mills Harney, a veteran of both the Mexican War and the Civil War, and his second wife Margaret Wellington Draffin, daughter of a prominent Kentucky lawyer.
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 Mary Harney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary Harney (born 11 March 1953) is an Irish politician who was the leader of the Progressive Democrats (the sixth largest political party in Ireland) between 1993 and 2006.
Mary Harney was born in Ballinasloe, County Galway in 1953.
In December 2001, Harney used a Government plane which was 50% funded by the European Commission to travel to County Leitrim to open a friend's off license in Manorhamilton.
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 Mary_Harney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
'''Mary Harney''' (born March 11, 1953) is an Irish Progressive Democrats politician.
Mary Harney was born in Ballinasloe, County Galway.
Following the 2002 general election Harney lead the Progressive Democrats, who had doubled their seats from four to eight, back into coalition with Fianna Fáil, the first time a government was re-elected since 1969.
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 Mary Harney - Politics.ie Wiki
Previous to that, she was the youngest ever Senator, when at the age of 24 she was nominated by Taoiseach Jack Lynch to Seanad Éireann in 1977.
As of Autumn 2004, Mary Harney has held the post of Minister for Health, leaving her previous position as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in which she served since 1997.
Mary became Tánaiste and was appointed Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment.
www.politics.ie /wiki/index.php?title=Mary_Harney   (490 words)

  
 St. Mary's College of Maryland Athletics
Harney returned to his alma mater in 2004 as an associate head coach under former head coach Brock Kantrow.
Harney, who played for St. Mary’s from 1993-95 after transferring from Ocean County College in New Jersey, was the head coach at Bel Air High School for three seasons before arriving at St. Mary's.
Harney was also the junior varsity coach at Patuxent High School for two seasons and at Great Mills High School for one season.
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 Mary Harney's end-of-year report
While Mary Harney's predecessors have had to deal with the blood scandal and the controversy over organ retention, Mary Harney, as soon as she was sitting comfortably in her new office, saw the nursing home charge scandal, although not of her making, fall through the roof.
Mary Harney to her credit, does appear to have coherent ideas to try to rectify many of the ills of the health service, although to date her plans has tended to be piecemeal, usually concentrating on how private sector enterprise can be harnessed to address specific problems in the public sector.
Mary Harney's big plan during the past year has been her 10 point programme to improve accident and emergency services, and it is on this that the Tanaiste has receive perhaps the most criticism, as while some limited progress has been made, the plan has not come anywhere near resolving the AandE crisis.
www.irishhealth.com /index.html?level=4&id=8211   (2138 words)

  
 NameTraq | Last Name: Harney
Mary Harney, the tanaiste, has signalled as much, saying: “It if were the case in three years’ time that we hadn’t hit the 10,000 civil servants that we...
Mary Harney, the tanaiste, is understood to have been asked by the European commission at a meeting in Dublin last week to attempt to find agreement on the...
Harney's station is the only one in the county excluded from the funds because it does not have an ambulance.
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 Military Career of Wm. S. Harney
Mary (Mullanphy) Harney died in Paris, France, in August 1861, according to her nephew, B.M. Chambers, of St. Louis, Missouri (letter in pension file).
Mary E. was his housekeeper, and caretaker, and the marriage was protested by his children.
Mary E., not only cared for the General in his old age, she entertained his friends and dignitaries, and conducted his business.
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 Harney Relationship
It states that Mary Caroline Harvey (spelled Harney on the marriage record in Green Bay) is the same person as Caroline LaFromboise and Caroline Parenteau.
Perhaps Harney felt by granting her some land she would be properly taken care of (perhaps by Pierre Paquette and his family).
It states that both of the Grignons know Caroline and that she is the "reputed, known and acknowledged daughter of Ke-sho-ko, and Captain Harney of the Army".
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 Mary Harney - related news, photos, topics, and quotes - Daylife
She argued that the government response _ to distribute methadone from 13 hospitals and mobile clinics, and to...
Mary Harney (Irish: Máire Ní Áirne; born 11 March 1953) is an Irish politician and was the leader of the Progressive Democrats (the sixth largest political party in Ireland) between 1993 and 2006.
A TD for Dublin Mid West she served as Tánaiste from 1997–2006, and as Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment from 1997–2004, and is the current Minister for Health & Children.
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 Progressive Democrats - Politics.ie Wiki
Harney was herself expelled from Fianna Fáil when she voted in favour of the Anglo-Irish Agreement in October 1985.
O'Malley retired from the leadership of the party in 1993, to be replaced by Mary Harney, who became the first woman to lead any of the major political parties in Ireland.
Mary Harney has said it makes "no difference" if they are in government with Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael as long as they can get policy implemented, "[they] do not want to be in government for the sake of it".
www.politics.ie /wiki/index.php?title=Progressive_Democrats   (1195 words)

  
 George Julian Harney: Spring Europe
George Julian Harney, the son of a seaman, was born in Depford on 17th February, 1817.
Harney was influenced by the more militant ideas of William Benbow, James Bronterre O'Brien and Feargus O'Connor.
Harney's support for the North in the American Civil War upset Joseph Cowen and in November 1862 was forced to resign.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SPRINGharney.htm   (920 words)

  
 Mary Harney/Ireland: High-Tech Hibernia
Mary Harney, Ireland's 46-year-old vice-premier, remembers her country in the 1980s as an inward-looking place, locked into age-old doctrines and rivalries.
Harney, who co-founded a free-trade Progressive Democrat party in 1985, found few takers for her tax-cutting, school-building, high-tech pitch.
Harney found a potent economic argument: All of Europe, east and west, she said, was going to be battling for the same investment capital.
www.businessweek.com /1999/99_45/b3654024.htm   (211 words)

  
 Mary Harney, Cabinet reshuffle, Ireland Government, Tánaiste, PDs, McDowell, Minister, Bertie Ahern, Taoiseach, ...
Last May, Mary Harney said in an address to her party members at the launch of the Progressive Democrats' Local Elections' Manifesto: 'In this manifesto, we are...
Harney's overall ministerial record has been poor and she has expressed a desire to have a new position in the Government.
Mary Harney is the head of a party which has sought to present itself as a champion of radical reform but real progress has been glacial.
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 Mary Harney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Mary Harney (born March 11, 1953) is a senior Irish politician.
Harney has been theleader of the Progressive Democrats since 1993.
Mary Harney was born on March 11, 1953 inBallinasloe, County Galway.
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 HARNEY TRIVIA
Harney was one of the few to escape into the river.
The peace-pipe used to seal the "Harney Treaty" is now in possession of Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in Washington D.C. The pipe is 2-feet long, made of Minnesota red stone, and is decorated with brass tacks.
Another branch of the Harney family says it was their ancestor, Henry Clay Harney (also spelled Horney), and that he received much more money from the Hearst family for his share of the mine.
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 Tánaiste Mary Harney becomes a Geoghegan
Ms Harney joked with party colleagues at the weekend that her "hen night" was spent at a fundraising quiz organised by the Young Progressive Democrats in the Harcourt Hotel in Dublin on Thursday.
Ms Harney was said to be "overcome" by the warm reception she received in Thurles, particularly when two members of the public approached her with flowers.
Unknown to most of her political colleagues, Ms Harney's final appointment on Friday was the last wedding service slot of the day at the Dublin Registry Office.
www.geoghegan.org /clan/harney.html   (535 words)

  
 Ministers: Mary Harney TD
Mary Harney TD Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children
Mary Harney was appointed as Minister for Health and Children in September 2004.
Mary Harney was a founder member of the Progressive Democrats with Desmond O’Malley in 1985.
www.doh.ie /ministers/historical.html   (275 words)

  
 Mary Harney - The Jiggies Reference Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
She has served as a member of Seanad Éireann (1977-1981), and as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment and as Tánaiste since 1997.
Harney has been the leader of the Progressive Democrats since 1993.
Mary Harney was born on March 11, 1953 in Ballinasloe, County Galway.
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 RTE News - Flood confirms no written request for Harney
Mary Harney was seeking an injunction preventing publication and distribution of the article which claimed she had been ordered by the Flood Tribunal to disclose details of her financial affairs.
Magill claims that although no formal order was made against the Tánaiste by the tribunal, a formal written request was made by the tribunal to Ms Harney asking her to produce all details in relation to her financial affairs.
Counsel for Ms Harney said they recognised it would be impossible to trace every copy of the magazine and retract it and therefore nothing that could be achieved by getting an injunction at this stage.
www.rte.ie /news/2002/0502/harney.html   (318 words)

  
 Mary Harney should resign - Indymedia Ireland
It is time for Mary Harney to resign.
And if Mary Harney is so familiar with the problems, you'd think she'd show at least some empathy with people coping with these situations, now she is Minister for Health.
Mary Harney will never have to face that choice as thousands of people in Ireland have had to.
www.indymedia.ie /article/75921   (943 words)

  
 Planet Potato - an Irish blog: Time for the PDs to replace Mary Harney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
So I arrive home to find a letter from Mary Harney in my letterbox, all waffling on about the minutae of her plans for the Department of Health.
Mary Harney has chosen to become Minister for Health because of the number of problems the health service obviously faces.
Mary Harney is a good manager, and will show that in Health.
planetpotato.blogs.com /planet_potato_an_irish_bl/2005/09/time_for_the_pd.html   (755 words)

  
 Progressive Democrats :: Liberal Political Party, Republic of Ireland :: Our People
Mary Harney was a founding member of the Progressive Democrats and serves as Dail Deputy for Dublin Mid West.
Mary Harney was born in Ballinasloe in County Galway in March 1953, however she was raised on a farm near the village of Newcastle on the western outskirts of Dublin.
Mary was married to Brian Geoghegan in November 2001.
www.progressivedemocrats.ie /our_people/member/1   (881 words)

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