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Finance minister Brian Lenihan addresses his cancer and vows to stay in office

By
Patrick Roberts,
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Sunday, January 3, 2010, 8:40 AM
Updated Sunday, January 3, 2010, 8:57 AM

 

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Finance Minister Brian Lenihan

Finance Minister Brain Lenihan, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer over the holidays, has planned a busy year ahead of him and has said his diagnosis should not interfere with his position in government.

While Lenihan plans to make a detailed statement about his health on Monday, he told the Sunday independent that the calendar has been favorable to him as he faces challenges in both his professional and personal life.

“Fortunately in the Department of Finance the first half of the year is quieter than the second and so that will give me a chance to undergo a course of treatment in anticipation of a full recovery," Lenihan told the Sunday Independent.

Lenihan does not foresee any more emergency budgets before the next one, which is planned for December,

"The exchequer returns are out next Tuesday and I expect some slight improvement in the tax returns for the month of December," continued Lenihan.

"I am glad to see that there was more spending in the retail economy this Christmas than last year, as far as can be judged."

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Posted by kickstar on Jan 03, 2010, 10:56 AM EST
One reads today that the UN has requested the Irish Govt supply it with proof that it is looking after an ethnic minority as it calls the Traveller community, The UN has been concerning itself with the welfare of the Travellers by ensuring plenty was being spent on their education etc, Which begs the Question, Where was the UN when our Constituencies in the North were being Gerrymandered ?, When our people had not even a vote, When as Nationals we were being openly discriminated against in housing and employment,When we had Citizens dying on hunger strike, When we had men protesting their inhuman treatment on the Blanket protest, When the British army and their Cohorts were murdering us in our beds,Where oh where was the UN at this time
 


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