Just Mary (39 page)

J. Crehan, Patrick Cooney, myself and Seán Fallon at an official opening, 1976.

Brian and Ann with Breen, Conor and Mark.

1980: Glasson Cumann, Co. Westmeath.

Brian, Ray MacSharry, myself and Charlie Haughey.

My first day in Dáil Éireann.
Left to right
: Aengus, myself, Enda and Feargal.

1984: Myself and Nora Owen.

Charlie Haughey and I at a Fianna Fáil function in Athlone, 1985.

Myself with P.J. Coghill and Máire Geoghegan-Quinn.

Fianna Fáil Government, 1987–89: the last single-party government.

Late 1980s: Albert Reynolds and myself.

1987: Athlone Fianna Fáil women’s group.

Brian and I, March 1987, both appointed Ministers for Education and Foreign Affairs: the first brother and sister in the Cabinet together. (
Courtesy of
The Irish
Times)

A press cutting recording the death of my maternal grandfather, Bernard (Brian) Scanlan. Note that no mention is made of my bereaved grandmother and the six — soon to be
seven — young children left without a father.

Presentation to me when I was appointed Minister for Education, March 1987.
Left to right
: Paddy Cooney, Councillor Breffni Rowan, TD, Chairman of the Town Council, and
John Walshe, Town Clerk.