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The Irish presidential election of 1974 resulted from the sudden death in office of President Erskine H. Childers. Initially all parties secretly agreed to nominate the late president’s widow Rita Childers. Before it was announced or indeed before she was even informed of the plan a mix-up led to the collapse of the arrangement.A partially deaf Fine Gael minister Tom O’Donnell misheard a journalist’s question asking about the decision of a local council to propose that Mrs.

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