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Indeed, there's an unmistakable "back to the future" quality to this year's election results: Fianna Fáil, the long-governing and almost anti-ideological party founded by Eamon de Valera, Ireland's dominant 20th-century political figure, was virtually wiped out in the wake of the 2008 crash.

Michael De Valera, the treasurer of the cooperative’s board of directors, worried about space.

At the moment, Mr. De Valera said, the plan is to switch out the old oil boilers for gas ones, prolonging the building’s reliance on fossil fuels for another 40 years or so.

Collins was said to have been in possession of the Smith and Wesson revolver when he helped fellow republican leader de Valera escape from the English prison in 1919.

A gun he used to break Éamon de Valera out of Lincoln Prison fetched £9,000.