Charles Haughey
The Last Post: Political page-turner takes a fresh look at a leader less ordinary
Charles Haughey was perhaps the most controversial politician in Irish history. A fine biography by academic Gary Murphy allows us to reappraise his life, though not forgive all of his shortcomings
Haughey and Johnson: two peas in a pod of flawed political leaders
Boris Johnson has, and Charles Haughey had, a fondness for living off other people’s money. And both men are proof of Samuel Johnson’s assertion that patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel
