Charles Haughey

In the late 1980s, Rory O'Hanlon, the then Minister for Health acting at the behest of his Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, set about reorganising the voluntary hospital service that had been in existence for 250 years. Hospitals were certainly in need of reform, but reform is one thing, wanton dismantling, ...

Mr Lowry appealed claiming, among other things, he was treated differently from one of the other tribunal subjects, the late former Taoiseach Charles Haughey, who was awarded his costs. The tribunal opposed the appeal. Yesterday's judgment was delivered by CoA President Mr Justice Sean Ryan.

It would be a stretch to say the St Patrick's Day parade has sucked the life from Paddy Drac, but after half a century the sun is finally setting on one of the festival's most recognisable faces. It all began in 1968 when Drac, with a homemade cloak and improvised fangs, slipped unseen onto the parade route at ...

... tribunal, set up to inquire into payments to politicians and related matters and which sat for 15 years . Mr Lowry appealed that decision claiming, among other things, he was treated differently from one of the other tribunal subjects, the late former taoiseach Charles Haughey, who was awarded his costs.

Charles Haughey was told by loyalist paramilitaries 30 years ago that MI5 had ordered his assassination, declassified state papers show. Records from his office while he was taoiseach in 1987 reveal that the UVF wrote to him to tell him that British intelligence also launched a smear campaign against him.

Whereas a fictional version of Charles Haughey, called Harry Messenger, is at the centre of Cunningham's 2003 novel The Taoiseach, in his new novel, Acts of Allegiance, Haughey appears as a real character. Cunningham believes his novels are the first time these events have been written about in fiction ...

What put this newspaper irrevocably on the public radar in Ireland was the three-part serialisation of Terry Keane's kiss-and-tell memoir in May 1999, including photographs of the social diarist cavorting with her paramour, the former taoiseach Charles Haughey. In week three, sales hit almost 114,000, ...

In 1981 Charles Haughey, the successor to Jack Lynch, was equally emphatic in his negative view of neutrality. In March 1981 he rejected a proposal that the Dail reaffirm the principle of neutrality of Ireland in international affairs. He further said: Our economic interests also are tied in with the Western ...

Equally, it was realised that the IRA had been ready to slaughter many in Gibraltar. Gibraltar prompted an angry emotional response within nationalism in Northern Ireland, and to a lesser degree in the Republic, creating tensions between Charles Haughey's government and Margaret Thatcher's.