Portraits in Power: Liam Cosgrave
Appointed taoiseach of a Fine Gael-Labour government in 1973, Liam Cosgrave proved himself a canny coalition leader by putting a number of clever and ambitious politicians into unexpected and key posts. Unfortunately, global economic events were to prove the government’s undoing, writes Eunan O’Halpin
Liam Cosgrave (1920-2017)
Party: Fine Gael
Constituency: Dublin County, Dún Laoghaire and Rathdown
In office: March 1973- July 1977
Key quote:“What they are creating in the end is a world where reason and compassion are dead and only might is right.” - On the perpetrators of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings in 1974
Liam Cosgrave became taoiseach following the February 1973 general election, when a voting pact ensured that Fine Gael and Labour ...
