A ‘timebomb’ who refuses to be defused by the Church
Mary McAleese’s Modern Family (RTÉ One) was a measured look at the lifestyles of a number of Irish families illustrating the diversity of what may constitute a family in modern Ireland, laced with comments by members of the hierarchy
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During her campaign to become president of Ireland in 1997, Mary McAleese was described in a radio interview by Eoghan Harris as “a tribal timebomb”. The prediction that she would be a divisive president, lugging all sorts of baggage into the Áras and alienating unionists, proved to be wide of the ...
