Dublin (ANTARA News/Reuters) - Former Irish Prime Minister Garret Fitzgerald, who led two governments in the 1980s and took important steps towards achieving peace in Northern Ireland, has died, Ireland`s state broadcaster said on Thursday.

Fitzgerald, a former economics lecturer who wrote a weekly column for the Irish Times newspaper up until last month, was 85.

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