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4 unusual facts about Brian Lenihan, Jnr


Brian Lenihan

His son Brian Lenihan, Jnr (1959-2011), also an Irish Fianna Fáil politician

Compliance Ireland

The Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, signaled that he would publish a Bill by the end of 2009.

National Consumer Agency

On 18 June 2009, Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan TD for the Irish Government established a single fully integrated regulatory institution, the Central Bank of Ireland.

Ursula Halligan

In December 2009, Halligan controversially disclosed the fact that the then Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan, Jnr had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.


715 series

The sets were rebuilt from surplus former 581/583 series EMU cars at JNR factories in Tsuchisaki (Akita), Kōriyama (Fukushima), Mattō (Ishikawa), and Kokura (Kitakyūshū).

Anglo Irish Bank

In a statement on 30 March 2010, a day before Anglo Irish Bank reported its financial results, the Minister Of Finance, Brian Lenihan, announced an injection of €8.3 billion into the bank, noting that a further €10 billion may be required at a later stage to cover future losses and ensure an adequate capital base.

Brian Lenihan

Brian Lenihan, Snr (1930–1995), long-serving Irish Fianna Fáil politician

D61

JNR Class D61, a Japanese steam locomotive converted from the JNR Class D51

Daishaka Station

Daishaka Station was opened on December 1, 1894 as a station on the Japanese Government Railway, the predecessor to the Japan National Railways (JNR) in former Namioka village.

Dunduzu Chisiza

One, Du Chisiza Jnr, was born subsequent to his death and became one of Malawi's most prominent playwrights.

Fianna Fáil

This fraction rises in Dublin with the exception of Dublin West, the former seat of both Brian Lenihan's.

Free Education for Everyone

Politicians such as the former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, and Ministers Batt O'Keeffe, Éamon Ó Cuív, Brian Lenihan and his brother Conor Lenihan have all been targeted, with NUI Galway and UCD having the most widely reported rate of activism against visiting Ministers.

George Glover Campbell

Born to parents Isaac Campbell, a grocer, and Susannah Patterson in England, Campbell jnr arrived in Australia in 1905, he lived at Drummoyne and worked in Sydney harbour shipyards.

Gleaston Castle

William Bonville jnr died along with his father at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460 and the castle fell to his newborn daughter Cecily, who later married Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset.

Hamilton Cuffe, 5th Earl of Desart

Lady Sybil Marjorie Cuffe (1879–1943), married (1) 30 April 1901 William Bayard Cutting (Jnr.) (1878- 1910 of tuberculosis), son of William Bayard Cutting and then secretary to the US embassy to the Court of St. James's, by whom she had one daughter Iris Origo (1902–1988).

Henry Howe Bemrose

He and his brother William jnr became partners in his fathers printing firm in Derby in 1858.

Hoswick

They then resisted the landowner, John Bruce Jnr of Sumburgh's claim for a third share of the profits which was customary under Udal Law (the catch was traditionally split three ways, one for the 'admiral', one for those who drove the whales ashore and one for the owner of the land on which the animals were beached)

James Fingleton

James Fingleton Jnr (7 December 1876 – 13 October 1920) was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and the father of Australian Test cricketer Jack Fingleton.

Joseph Highmore

His son Anthony Highmore (1719–99) was an artist, one of whose 15 children, Anthony Highmore Jnr.

Louis Tancred

Louis Jnr instead joined the Royal Air Force and, while working as a flight instructor, was killed aged 34 in a plane crash at the Isle of Axholme, Lincolnshire.

Lynda La Plante

La Plante was also executive producer on Daniel Petrie Jnr's adaptation of her show Framed (2002 TNT) which starred Sam Neill and Rob Lowe.

Murdo MacLeod

In 2012 he starred on the CBeebies show "My Story" with his 2 grandsons, Murdo Jnr.

Namioka Station

Namioka Station was opened on December 7, 1894 as a station on the Japanese Government Railway, the predecessor to the Japan National Railways (JNR) in former Namioka village.

National Asset Management Agency

The Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, said the banks would have to assume significant losses when the loans, largely made to property developers, are removed from their books.

former Finance Minister the late Brian Lenihan believes that pension funds could be the most appropriate investors in the SPV.

Minutes of a private meeting at the department between Brian Lenihan and IMF officials on 29 April 2009 last state that the “IMF (Mr Seelig) do not believe that Nama will result in significant increase in bank lending in Ireland”.

Finance Minister Brian Lenihan has denied that the Government got its sums wrong on NAMA.

On 8 October 2009, Brian Lenihan Minister of Finance said that even after selling real-estate loans to the government's NAMA, that the country's biggest banks may need further money.

Nukazawa Station

Nukazawa Station was opened on December 3, 1956 on the Japan National Railways (JNR) serving the town of Takanosu, Akita.

Phillip Bennett

He served again for 12 months in Korea from 1 September 1952 as Senior, then Chief Instructor with the 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade Jnr NCO School while posted as Tactics Instructor at the School of Infantry in Seymour, Victoria.

Private railway

Although Japan Railways Group companies are private entities, they are not considered private railways because of their unique status as the successors of the Japanese National Railways (JNR).

Richie Boucher

Boucher accepted that Bank of Ireland was responsible for Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan putting '‘erroneous information'’ on the Dáil record to the effect that no performance-related bonuses were paid to staff.

Roosevelt's muntjac

A single specimen of the Roosevelt's muntjac or Roosevelt's barking deer (Muntiacus rooseveltorum) was presented to the Field Museum in 1929 following a hunting expedition led by Theodore (Jnr) and Kermit Roosevelt.

Shinji Sogō

At the same time, Sogō, who had kept estimated cost figures of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen deliberately low for fear that if they were too high neither the Japanese Government nor the World Bank would have supported the proposal, began to divert money from other JNR projects to the construction of the Shinkansen.

Summer Hill, New South Wales

Ninian Melville Jnr (1843–1897), local furniture maker and member of the NSW Parliament who also became Mayor of Newtown and later Ashfield.

The Minutes

The band have toured extensively in Ireland and the UK with the likes of Albert Hammond Jnr The Strokes, The Pigeon Detectives, The Von Bondies, Supergrass and Flogging Molly forging their reputation along the way as a must see act for the future.

Tikiri Bandara Panabokke II

Panabokke Jnr received his primary education at the Walala Village School, and went to Trinity College, Kandy and Royal College Colombo, where he played cricket for his college team.

Tim Hopkins

He graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and came to the attention of Australian jazz musicians Vince Jones, Paul Grabowsky, Mike Nock, James Morrison, Don Burrows, top kiwi musicians Kim Patterson, Kevin Field, Frank Gibson Jnr, Nathan Haines, Mark de Clive Lowe, Andy Browne, Roger Fox, King Kapisi and Gray Bartlett.

Yamanote Line

As part of this change, JNR decided to adopt the Yamanote pronunciation, one reason being that there is a Yamate Station on the Negishi Line in nearby Yokohama.


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