I think its called airbrushing history.

No matter what the family put up to redeem this thief he’ll remain a hate figure for many people. The personification of cute hoorism in politics on this country. Lived like a king while the people struggled. I for one never ever want him referred to as being my Taoiseach. He was a crook…end of.

What a load of cock… No mention of terry Keane either.. Talk about one sided…. Most corrupt politician in history .

What a piece of sh*t. Represented all that was wrong with Ireland

Such a toxic family.

The Heehaugh family would do well to look at the comments and thumbs on this thread before wasting their time trying to rewrite history and treating us as fools.

The disgrace that was Charles Haughey, set the tone for the arrogant disregard by Fianna Fail for laws, the people and for basic decency This disregard for the people and Fianna Fail corrupt practices led to €200,000,000,000 debt forcing Irish families into debt forever. Haughey’s wealth was accumulated by the proceeds of criminality. In any decent society, the Criminal Assets Bureau would have taken all his assets for the state. Haughey’s elitist family, like all the Fianna Fail “family” have some neck attempting to rewrite the history of Haughey and Fianna Fail.

Give back the money your DADDY stole from the irish nation HAUGHEYS

Financial scandals[edit]
Haughey’s personal wealth and extravagant lifestyle – he owned racehorses,[36] a large motor sailing yacht Celtic Mist, a private island, and a Gandon-designed mansion – had long been a point of curious speculation; he had refused throughout his career to answer any questions about how he financed this lifestyle on a government salary.[37] Despite his professed desire to fade from public attention, these questions followed him into retirement, eventually exploding into a series of political, financial and personal scandals tarnished his image and reputation.
In 1997, a government-appointed tribunal led by Judge Brian McCracken first revealed that Haughey had received substantial monetary gifts from businessmen, and that he had held secret offshore bank accounts in the Ansbacher Bank in the Cayman Islands. Haughey faced criminal charges for obstructing the work of the McCracken tribunal.[38][39] His trial on these charges was postponed indefinitely after the judge in the case found that he would not be able to get a fair trial following prejudicial comments by the then PD leader and Tánaiste Mary Harney.[40]
In 1997 the public were shocked by allegations that Haughey had embezzled money that was a subvention to the Fianna Fáil Party; money that was from central Government’s taxpayer’s funds for the operation of a political party and that he had spent large sums of these funds on Charvet shirts and expensive dinners in a top Dublin restaurant while preaching belt-tightening and implementing budget cuts as a national policy.[41]
The subsequent Moriarty Tribunal delved further into Haughey’s financial dealings. In his main report[6] on Charles Haughey released on 19 December 2006, Mr. Justice Moriarty made the following findings:
Haughey was paid more than IR£8 million between 1979 and 1986 from various benefactors and businessmen, including £1.3 million from the Dunnes Stores supermarket tycoon Ben Dunne alone.[37] The tribunal described these payments as “unethical”.[42]
In May 1989 one of Haughey’s lifelong friends Brian Lenihan, a former government minister, underwent a liver transplant which was partly paid for through fundraising by Haughey. The Moriarty tribunal found that, of the £270,000 collected in donations for Brian Lenihan, no more than £70,000 ended up being spent on Lenihan’s medical care. The tribunal identified one specific donation of £20,000 for Lenihan that was surreptitiously appropriated by Haughey,[43] who took steps to conceal this transaction.[44][45]
The tribunal found evidence of favours performed in return for money – Saudi businessman Mahmoud Fustok paid Haughey £50,000 to support applications for Irish citizenship.[42]
In other evidence of favours performed, the tribunal reported that Haughey arranged meetings between Ben Dunne and civil servant Seamus Pairceir of the Revenue Commissioners. These discussions resulted in an outstanding capital gains tax bill for Dunne being reduced by £22.8 million. Moriarty found that this was “not coincidental”, and that it was a substantial benefit conferred on Dunne by Haughey’s actions.[46]
Allied Irish Banks settled a million-pound overdraft with Haughey soon after he became Taoiseach in 1979; the tribunal found that the lenience shown by the bank in this case amounted to an indirect payment by the bank to Haughey.[42]
The tribunal rejected Haughey’s claims of ignorance of his own financial affairs[41] and Haughey was accused by the tribunal of “devaluing democracy”.[42]
Haughey eventually agreed a settlement with the revenue and paid a total of €6.5 million in back taxes and penalties to the Revenue Commissioners in relation to these donations.[47] In August 2003 Haughey was forced to sell his large estate, Abbeville, in Kinsealy in north County Dublin for €45 million to settle legal fees he had incurred during the tribunals.[48] He continued to live at Abbeville and own the island of Inishvickillane off the coast of County Kerry until his death.

What became of the silk shirts

CAB should have gone after the Haughey’s assets

Do you press a brown envelope button to enter?

Airbrush Charlie all you like but GUBU sums the odious man up quite well

Master thief and conman there is a saying in the art world a master piece can never be improved

Factual, that should be interesting.

would’nt read this book if they put it threw me letter box for freeee
And anybody says he done good for this country is a blind old fool he just layed the foundations for bigger shite bags

It will be interesting to see if RTE attempt airbrushing him too !!!

The turnout for his funeral summed up perfectly what we all thought of him. Despicable man .

Haughey the only politician capable of making Berlusconi look like an honest man.

Haughey corrupted the entire political system but rather ironic the mention of phone tapping of two journalists in the wake of revelations that the USA has been tapping every single world leaders phone calls

The ‘Hawhee’ family don’t have to worry about how RTE will portray their father. The people know the truth. Their attempt to airbrush the past is sickening.

There’s no doubt that Haughey done some good things, there’s no getting away from that. Copy that with his counterpart across the Dail, Garret FitzGerald. You might not have agreed with his politic, he also done good but he wasn’t corrupt.

At the end of it all Haughey was found to be corrupt and abused a position of power. The Haughey family should be glad that they were able to hang on to his millions, if it were up to me, CAB would seized them. Of course, Bertie was never going to betray his master….

Does it mention that he was a corrupt bully?

http://bocktherobber.com/2006/12/haughey-2/

What about all the Brown Envelopes he got as back handers???

Typical! If this initiative wasn’t so pathetic it would be funny ! Editing history not a credible thing to do. They’re a at it today, Lenihan in Irish daily mail. More of the same

There’s bound to be an email address on the website for…ahem…suggestions.

You can say what you like but I’d take Charlie as Taoiseach today over the current lot. He was a statesman and a real leader not like the buffoon we have at the wheel today!

I would like to see how this site compares to Wikipedia? This is a cynical attempt to rewrite history just like this show on RTE.

bad made worse

This is a good idea on the part of the Haughey family. It may allow younger people, in particular, to gain a balanced knowledge of Charles Haughey’s career and contribution to Ireland, as opposed to the totally jaundiced, infantile and one-sided caricature of him that is presented by the liberal establishment media (whose idol was always the hopeless Garret Fitzgerald).

The shinner always comes out in Hugh!

What about the bribes the money he demanded and received from “the big fellow” Ben Dunne?

I’m sure the wardrobe shinners In RTE will show Charlie in a good light, some hope What about yourself Hugh.

Arms trial is mentioned in northern ireland section. Headline on this piece is inaccurate. I wonder why?