1/4: When Cumann na nGaedheal & the National Centre Party were negotiating a merger to establish Fine Gael in 1933, James Dillon favoured Patrick Hogan to become the first leader of Fine Gael but Hogan refused. https://twitter.com/finegael/status/1359568662659743748
2/4: James Dillon held the former Minister for Agriculture in highest regard.

When John A. Costello was elected Taoiseach in 1948 and appointed his cabinet with Dillon as Agricultural Minister, in his inaugural speech in the Dáil the only area of policy he spoke of were indu...
3/4: ...were industry & Agriculture. He announced that the new govt. had been formed around the principle that agricultural production must be stepped up immediately for there to be any economic prosperity.
4/4: He promised that he as Taoiseach and Minister Dillon would “bring agriculture back to where Patrick Hogan had left it”

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