Early political life Reynolds became interested in politics during the Arms Crisis, a controversial episode in which two government ministers, Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries Neil Blaney and Minister for Finance Charles Haughey, were removed from the government over an attempt to send arms to Northern Ireland in 1970. The events caused thousands of Catholic families had been driven out of their homes, of whom 1,000 had fled across the border to the Republic of Ireland. Blaney and Haughey were later acquitted in court.
Early political life Reynolds became interested in politics during the Arms Crisis, a controversial episode in which two government ministers, Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries Neil Blaney and Minister for Finance Charles Haughey were removed from the government over an attempt to send arms to Northern Ireland in 1970. The events caused thousands of Catholic families had been driven out of their homes, of whom 1,000 had fled across the border to the Republic of Ireland. Blaney and Haughey ,were later acquitted in court.