The Power Game: Ireland Under Fianna Fail - Softcover

After a brief chapter on the Founding Fathers de Valera and Lemass, four comprehensive and well-paced sections systematically blow the gaffe on the Lynch years, the Haughey years, the Reynolds years and on to ahem Ahern.' (Books Ireland)

A pivotal work that focuses on where we are, politically, in Ireland at the start of the new millennium.' (Irish Times)

Reads like a John Grisham thriller.' (The Pat Kenny Show)

The Power Game lifts the lid on the modern struggles for power within Fianna Fáil, including the heaves against Charles Haughey and the shafting of Albert Reynolds. It also explores in detail the careers of Jack Lynch, Charles Haughey, Albert Reynolds and Bertie Ahern, and looks at the impact on the party of the explosive revelations at the judicial tribunals about the extent of corruption in Irish public life. New material: Stephen Collins examines the most recent disclosures concerning the arms crisis of 1970 and information released from the military archives.