George Colley
Former Tánaiste of IrelandWikipedia
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Search complete. 9 mentions across 2 episodes found for "George Colley".
Nov 6, 2026
Charlie Haughey - Origins to Arms Crisis (Part 1)
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16:08Kevin LarneyHOST
So this is like a St. Endes type job.
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16:11Kevin LarneyHOST
Here he would have met and formed lifelong relationships with George Colley and Harry Boland, who are from good Fenian stock.
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16:21Kevin LarneyHOST
So lifelong relationships for good or bad, but this is where we get into the sort of it feels like a Harry Potter fan fiction or something like this does here like he is the young boy who he's come from nothing really he's like impoverished and then he's going to this fancy magic school that he's got into and everyone he meets is like from Fenian dynasties yeah
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16:44Jason BrennanHOST
but technically his dad was in the rare
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24:07Kevin LarneyHOST
No, I'm fine.
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24:07Kevin LarneyHOST
You can...
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24:09Kevin LarneyHOST
I'm alright so UCD is like the same as Joey's it is like a bad fan fiction for Ireland like so while he's there so he's him and Harry Boland and George Colley all go together they all go from Joey's to UCD together so he's hanging out with them he also meets and starts off a lifelong rivalry with Fine Gael's Gareth Fitzgerald Oh.
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24:30Kevin LarneyHOST
So this is just funny.
The political life and legacy of Charles Haughey
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20:43Vincent BrowneGUEST
O'Malley gave him an opportunity to expel him, O'Malley, from the party.
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20:48Vincent BrowneGUEST
And secondly, the untimely death of George Colley.
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20:54Vincent BrowneGUEST
So almost at a stroke, his two main opponents within the party were gone.
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21:01Vincent BrowneGUEST
And he was a better leader, actually, as a consequence of that than he had been previously.