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It's guarded by units of the British army and I can never come up to this border without experiencing deep feelings of anger and resentment.

Charles Haughey

It was a bizarre happening, an unprecedented situation, a grotesque situation, an almost unbelievable mischance.

Charles Haughey

I could instance a load of fuckers whose throats I'd cut and push over the nearest cliffs, but there's no percentage in that!

Charles Haughey

He can only be defined by his contradictions: a patriot whose ultimate allegiance was not to Ireland but to the Cayman Islands; a preacher of family values who kept an expensive mistress; a lover of power who allowed himself to become a kept man; a product of the Catholic lower middle class who spent millions of pounds of other people's money in affecting the style of an Ascendancy gent; a man of the people who secretly sniggered at the people's credulity; a charmer who liked to cultivate an air of menace and warned his own bank that he could be a very troublesome adversary.

Charles Haughey

The best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning.

Charles Haughey

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.

Charles Haughey

Every TD, from the youngest or newest in the House, dreams of being Taoiseach.

Charles Haughey

Charles Haughey

Charles Haughey

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Born: September 16, 1925

Died: June 13, 2006 (aged 80)

Bio: Charles James "Charlie" Haughey was Taoiseach of Ireland, serving three terms in office. He was also the fourth leader of Fianna Fáil.

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