Irish Peacemaker, Ex-premier Reynolds Dies At 81

DUBLIN (AP) — Albert Reynolds, the straight-talking Irish prime minister who played a key role in delivering peace to Northern Ireland but struggled to keep his own governments intact, died Thursday after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. Yet within months of that peacemaking triumph, Reynolds was forced to quit as leader of Ireland's centrist Fianna Fail party after his coalition partners in the left-wing Labour Party withdrew from the government in protest over his take-it-or-leave-it management style. Even before becoming prime minister, Reynolds was accused of recklessness while running the commerce department in the late 1980s, where he promoted a state insurance scheme for the country's top beef baron to export cattle to Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

 

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