# charles-haughey - Saturday 23 March, 2013
Do you recognise that school? Did you grow up on that street? Is that your ma?
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# charles-haughey - Sunday 30 December, 2012
In 1979, Charles Haughey made his famous speech about contraception in Ireland. John Drennan looks back at that day in an extract from his new book.
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The rebuttal was in response to a letter from England which suggested that the ‘Irish Free State’ should be renamed the ‘Irish Secular Free State’.
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# charles-haughey - Saturday 29 December, 2012
A man revered by his people, Charles Haughey was a politician used to the finer things in life.
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One of the most controversial incidents of the Falklands War saw a change in the Irish government’s approach to the conflict and a considerable backlash from the British media and public.
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# charles-haughey - Friday 28 December, 2012
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro left a gift for then-Taoiseach Charles Haughey during his brief stopover in Shannon in late 1982.
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Newly released documents show Ireland’s attempts to engage American President Ronald Reagan on Northern Ireland and to counter British propaganda.
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During his time as Taoiseach, Charles Haughey moved to change the culture of smoking in Ireland.
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Newly released documents related to the Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings show that people both at home and abroad thought that Ireland’s government weren’t doing enough to stamp out the IRA.
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The Taoiseach was asked to provide assistance as Ireland was looked upon favourably by Buenos Aires during the Falkland Island conflict.
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Suggestions that Ireland would not support British efforts to ostracise Argentina after its invasion of the Falklands in April 1982 were met with warnings from diplomats in London.
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# charles-haughey - Saturday 13 October, 2012
Anne Robinson has told The Guardian that she hopes the former Taoiseach “went to the grave with bruises on his hands”.
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# charles-haughey - Wednesday 10 October, 2012
Nine things you need to know this morning…
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# charles-haughey - Sunday 12 August, 2012
University of Ulster politics academic David McCann recalls the events of 1982 – and says we’ve never seen such a politically-charged atmosphere in this country since that turbulent year.
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# charles-haughey - Monday 6 August, 2012
The former taoiseach may have left the party in the wake of damning findings by the Mahon Tribunal but a glowing profile on the Fianna Fáil website remains.
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# charles-haughey - Friday 3 August, 2012
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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Payments to former Taoisigh for secretarial allowances continued until March – despite Enda Kenny telling the Dáil they would end in January, TheJournal.ie can reveal.
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# charles-haughey - Sunday 1 July, 2012
Excluding those who have resigned their seat to take up another political position or ill-health, there have been just a handful of resignations from parliament over principle or controversy down the years. Who are they? And why have there been so few?
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# charles-haughey - Monday 28 May, 2012
Logbooks released by a UCD-funded website detail calls placed to Áras an Uactaráin by Fianna Fáil members in a controversial move that had consequences for the party years later.
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# charles-haughey - Friday 11 May, 2012
Promotional material for the sale of the former home of ex-Taoiseach Charles Haughey incorrectly stated that Margaret Thatcher and Colonel Gaddafi were once guests at the mansion.
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# charles-haughey - Wednesday 28 March, 2012
The nine things you need to know this morning.
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Conor Haughey was mistakenly named in the report, instead of his brother Ciarán Haughey.
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# charles-haughey - Monday 2 January, 2012
From yesterday, former taoisigh are no longer entitled to claim expenses for secretarial work and mobile phones from the state.
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# charles-haughey - Saturday 31 December, 2011
State papers show that while he was only Taoiseach for half the year, Haughey found a number of issues to get riled up about.
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# charles-haughey - Friday 30 December, 2011
The State papers, released under the 30-year rule, also show that the owners of the Stardust asked the Government to pay their legal fees for appearing at a tribunal of inquiry into the tragedy.
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Gaddafi’s intervention in the hunger strikes, Thatcher’s concessions and an advisor to Charlie Haughey who wasn’t best pleased with the state broadcaster. All revealed today…
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# charles-haughey - Sunday 4 December, 2011
Bruton’s VAT on children’s shoes, McCreevy’s decentralisation, Mac the Knife, ‘turning a corner’ – and plenty more.
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# charles-haughey - Wednesday 5 October, 2011
Details provided to Wicklow TD Anne Ferris show that the ‘Teflon Taoiseach’ has claimed over €10,000 in phone expenses alone.
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# charles-haughey - Thursday 19 May, 2011
The former two-term Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael dies after a short illness at the age of 85.
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# charles-haughey - Wednesday 23 March, 2011
Former minister Michael Lowry puts up a defensive front across the airwaves today – and rejects a call from Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore that he resign his Dail seat.
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# charles-haughey - Tuesday 22 March, 2011
The chief of the Esat telephone consortium says the findings of the Tribunal are based on the opinions of its legal team.
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The Tribunal’s findings are released in two mammoth documents – with stinging rebukes of former minister Michael Lowry TD.
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# charles-haughey - Sunday 27 February, 2011
Ferdinand von Prondzynski suggests a Fine Gael-Labour coalition may become quickly frayed at the edges.
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# charles-haughey - Friday 31 December, 2010
The Taoiseach was worried about how newspapers kept getting details of matters discussed in cabinet, and prepared for court.
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Parties tabled a bill that would have led to a divorce referendum as early as 1980 – six years before one was held.
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# charles-haughey - Thursday 30 December, 2010
Charles Haughey and Brian Lenihan Sr were given plans detailing a potential Irish-Arab Bank to fund government spending.
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Charlie Haughey’s government cancelled plans to build him a £725k mansion – and was angry when RTÉ didn’t cover it.
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# charles-haughey - Monday 27 December, 2010
A ‘final’ cost on Anglo Irish Bank, scorn for Conor Lenihan, and questions over Brian Cowen’s Morning Ireland performance.
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# charles-haughey - Wednesday 8 September, 2010
Vincent Keaney’s YouTube video causes a storm after he films himself liberally dancing on the grave of the former Taoiseach.
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