The Power Game: Ireland under Fianna Fail

by Stephen Collins

New Updated Edition. The Power Game lifts the lid on the modern struggles for power within Fianna Fail, including the heaves against Charles Haughey and the shafting of Albert Reynolds. It also explores in detail the careers of Jack Lynch, Charles Haughey, Albert Reynolds and Bertie Ahern, and looks at the impact on the party of the explosive revelations at the judicial tribunals about the extent of corruption in Irish public life. New Stephen Collins examines the most recent disclosures concerning the arms crisis of 1970 and information released from the military archives.

384 pages, Paperback

Published September 18, 2001

About the author

Stephen Collins, an Irish journalist and author, is a Political Correspondent with The Irish Times. He was previously political editor at the Irish newspapers The Irish Press, The Sunday Press, the Sunday Tribune, and most recently The Irish Times, which he joined in January 2006. He studied for a B.A. in History and Politics and an M.A. in politics at University College Dublin.

In 1983–84 Collins sat on the New Ireland Forum, a body designed to establish common ground amongst Irish nationalist political parties. His later criticisms of Charles Haughey — who also sat on the Forum — were, it has been said, primarily moulded by the complacency with which he had seen Jack Lynch's handling of the Arms Crisis of 1970.

Collins has published books on the Cosgrave political dynasty and, more recently, on the foundation of the Progressive Democrats political party, called Breaking the Mould.