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John Aloysius Costello 20 June — 5 January was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Taoiseach from to and from to , Leader of the Opposition from to and from to , and Attorney General of Ireland from to Costello was born on 20 June , in Fairview, Dublin. He was the younger son of John Costello senior, a civil servant, and Rose Callaghan.

He studied at King's Inns to become a barrister, winning the Victoria Prize there in and Costello was called to the Irish Bar in , and practised as a barrister until Three years later he was called to the inner bar, and the following year, , he became Attorney General of Ireland , upon the formation of the Cumann na nGaedheal government, led by W.

Cumann na nGaedheal soon merged with other parties to form Fine Gael. In response to an assertion by Minister for Justice P. Ruttledge , that the Blueshirts had fascist leanings like the Italian Blackshirts and German Brownshirts , and that other European nations had taken similar actions against similar organisations, Costello stated:.

The Minister gave extracts from various laws on the Continent, but he carefully refrained from drawing attention to the fact that the Blackshirts were victorious in Italy and that the Hitler Shirts were victorious in Germany, as, assuredly, in spite of this Bill [..

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We are asked not merely to give a blank cheque, but, to give an uncrossed cheque to the Government. He lost his seat at the general election of , but regained it when de Valera called a snap election in Since Fine Gael was the largest party in the government, it had the task of providing a suitable candidate for Taoiseach. Naturally, it was assumed that its leader, Richard Mulcahy , would be offered the post.

This was due to Mulcahy's record during the Irish Civil War.