For Brian Lenihan, who died of cancer on June 10th, it was impossibly hard.
ECONOMIST: Ireland��s former finance minister dies, at just 52
Mr Lenihan's Fianna Fail party paid a heavy price in elections earlier this year.
ECONOMIST: Ireland��s former finance minister dies, at just 52
They urged Mr. Lenihan to accept the money and stop the market panic from spreading.
"The state can no longer afford this, " said Finance Minister Brian Lenihan on Tuesday.
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Mr Lenihan has done this with the toughest budget in his country's history.
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"Our economy is still in a weakened condition, and our self confidence as a nation has been shaken, " Mr Lenihan said.
He also appointed as his Finance Minister, Brian Lenihan, the grandson, son, nephew and brother of Fianna Fail TDs and ministers.
But on Sunday, Nov. 14, Mr. Lenihan quietly dispatched a team to Brussels to hold preliminary talks in case a rescue was needed.
"Americans do not generally know that a record of their whereabouts is being created whenever they travel about with their cellphones, " Magistrate Lenihan wrote.
Mr Lenihan's later decision to set up an asset-management agency to take on the banks' dud property loans was also taken from the textbooks.
ECONOMIST: Ireland��s former finance minister dies, at just 52
Mr Lenihan will be remembered for one decision in particular.
ECONOMIST: Ireland��s former finance minister dies, at just 52
After last year's Christmas exodus by southern shoppers, Irish finance minister Brian Lenihan suggested it was "unpatriotic" of them to shop in Northern Ireland rather than boost the ailing economy in the south.
"We have significantly increased the State Pension over the last ten years and it is the government's view that the security this has brought to older people should be preserved" said Mr Lenihan.
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Earlier this month, Mr Lenihan insisted it would be different this Christmas, as he could react to any changes in the British VAT rate because this time around, his UK counterpart will reveal his budget first.
However, these reports do nothing to help solve the mystery of why Brian Lenihan and his officials reported the arrival of a letter on November 12, 2010 while the letter being debated for release was dated apparently November 19.
The Fianna Fail candidate, Brian Lenihan, was sacked as deputy prime minister by his old friend Charles Haughey at the insistence of his coalition partners, the Progressive Democrats, in a row over whether phone calls had been made to President Hillery asking him not to dissolve the Dail in 1982.
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