From the Archives: July 18th, 1981
Within weeks of its election a minority Fine Gael-Labour government announced an emergency budget, with Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald warning that we were living beyond our means, as Frank McDonald reported
Profile: An outspoken political figure
A tough grafter, O’Keeffe enjoyed the electoral cut and thrust and spoke his mind
The question that should have been asked at the Labour husting was: Why are we all here?
Oh dear God, but the Labour husting was boring, with everyone trying to find different ways of saying the same thing
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