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The Irish presidential election of 1976 was precipitated by the sudden resignation of President Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh in October 1976 following an attack on him by Paddy Donegan the Minister for Defence in which the Minister called the President a thundering disgrace and implied he was disloyal to the state. Ó Dálaigh’s resignation followed Dáil Éireann’s decision to vote confidence in the minister in the ensuring row.

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