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unusual facts about Brian Lenihan, Snr


Brian Lenihan

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


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

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

Captain Kitt

The Dublin-born singer-songwriter David Kitt (born 1975) is the grandson of Michael F. Kitt, Snr.

Compliance Ireland

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

Elliott Portnoy

Portnoy was previously the chief executive of SNR Denton, a combination between Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP and Denton Wilde Sapte.

Fianna Fáil

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

Fintry, Dundee

Charlie Adam was born and grew up in Fintry, where his family still reside (including Charlie Adam (footballer born 1962) Snr.

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.

Johnston Drummond

The expedition, which included James Drummond Snr and Samuel Pole Phillips under the command of Captain John Scully, discovered the vast tract of open pastoral land that is now known as the Victoria Plains.

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.

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.

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.

Robert Laws

His father, Robert Laws snr of Old Aberdeen, and his mother, Christian née Cruikshank of Kidshill in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, both attended St Nicholas Lane United Presbyterian Church, Aberdeen.

Ronnie Whelan, Sr.

It would be a further thirty-four years before Drogheda captured the blue riband event of Irish football, but Gavin Whelan's opening goal against Cork City in the 2005 decider brought his family's footballing narrative full-circle; the midfielder is Ronnie Snr.'s grandson.

Simeis 147

Simeis 147, also known as the Spaghetti Nebula, SNR G180.0-01.7 or Sharpless 2-240, is a supernova remnant (SNR) that may have occurred in the Milky Way, on the constellation borders of Auriga and Taurus.

SNR Denton

In January 2011 SNR Denton opened in Hong Kong following the assimilation of the Hong Kong office of Hammonds.

SNR-300

Klaus Traube, then director of the executing company Interatom, is today one of the most prominent German opponents of the usage of nuclear power.

Strange Nature

Formed in 1986 by Gordon Mills, son of 60s pop producer and music manager Gordon Mills Snr.

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.

Water-pouring algorithm

Each of the available channels is then a section of the container having its own depth, given by the reciprocal of the frequency-dependent SNR for the channel.

White River, Mpumalanga

The land was used to demobilise British soldiers and the first manager of the settlement was Tom Lawrence (snr), after whom the longest street in the town is still named.


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