Alife full of colour... and controversy Charles Haughey, the flamboyant Taoiseach whose personal chemistry with Margaret Thatcher helpedbring about a thaw in Anglo-Irish relationships, died today.ALF McCREARY reflects on his turbulent life

Belfast Telegraph | June 13, 2006 | Copyright

Charles Huaghey served as Taoiseach of the Republic on three separate occasions and was one of the most controversial politicians of his generation. Despite attempts to build contacts with Unionists, he earned their undying opposition because of his strongly republican policies and particularly for his pointed observation that Northern Ireland was "a failed political entity."Charles James Haughey, who was born in Co Mayo in September 1925,came from a family with Swatragh connections, and his father was second-in-command of the Northern division of the old IRA. He became a member of Fianna ...

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