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State to pay Haughey tribunal legal bill which may hit €5m

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  • 10-10-2012 10:27am
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    AnswerIs42
    Registered Users Posts: 214 ✭✭


    Impressive that he can still screw us from the grave.
    THE MORIARTY tribunal has awarded costs to the estate of the late Charles Haughey. The size of the costs sought is expected to be in the region of €4-€5 million, according to informed sources.
    The former taoiseach, who died in June 2006, was the subject of the first of the tribunal’s two reports, published in December 2006. The tribunal investigated payments to Mr Haughey during his years as taoiseach and whether he had sought to do favours for those who made payments to him.
    It found that he took payments of €11.56 million between 1979 and 1996, and granted favours in return. It said the scale and secretive nature of the payments “can only be said to have devalued the quality of a modern democracy”.

    Full article here


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    EricPraline
    Registered Users Posts: 486 ✭✭EricPraline


    Absolutely disgusting. Of course, his greater legacy in the form of the actions of his protégées has cost the state far more than €5m.


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    jonsnow
    Registered Users Posts: 724 ✭✭✭jonsnow


    Its grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented.


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    deandean
    Registered Users Posts: 2,229 ✭✭✭deandean


    Even from the grave, he's taking the shirt off our backs.


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    Mr.Micro
    Registered Users Posts: 5,336 ✭✭✭Mr.Micro


    AnswerIs42 wrote: »
    Impressive that he can still screw us from the grave.



    Full article here

    Is it not incredible that the Tribunal finds against Haughey, yet costs are still awarded. Clearly everyone has a right to defend himself/herself, but when there is deliberate cover ups and massive costs in discovery from the tribunal, it makes a joke of the whole purpose of the tribunals in the first place. The lawyers always win and get paid, any other trade would not get a penny.


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    sceptre
    Registered Users Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Mr.Micro wrote: »
    Is it not incredible that the Tribunal finds against Haughey, yet costs are still awarded.
    In a word, yes.

    I'm pretty sure that other people will have many more creative words with stressed terminating consonants though.


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    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,548 ✭✭✭golfball37


    deandean wrote: »
    Even from the grave, he's taking the shirt off our backs.

    They're not of the Charvet variety sadly


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    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    Tribunals are just an insult to the people. They get to rub what they did in our faces and have us pay millions to cover their legal costs for the privilege while getting no punishment for what they have done.

    It isn't even the appearance of justice but still tries to pretend to be or be shown to us as such by politicians.

    A nice way for them and their buddies to lay in bed with each other and be able to come clean eventually to the public years later but still not be held accountable for their actions.


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    goat2
    Registered Users Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭goat2


    this is terrible, why should we pay for someone who had all the privilages,
    while there is a beautiful family who are caring for their severly ill child being made to pay out half a million ( i think ) because they lost a case,
    it is awfully hard on them rearing their family and worrying about this huge cost, and dreading that they could lose the home they have put all their monies into to make it accessible for wheelchair, eg, building larger room, bigger bathroom, lifts to help with getting their child into bed and bath as well as wheelchair, widen doors, install ramps and hearing that they had to fight to get just one extra nappy per day, and trying to give their child the best care and make life better for him and his siblings,
    they were on the saturday night show, it broke my heart, and to hear the same week that they are caught for costs, that haughey has all his expenses covered,
    it is an insult to all of us,

    i know what it is to have an ill child, i have been down that road, and am very angered with what i have heard this past week,
    cushion the rich,
    and trash the ordinary person,
    it is just disgusting


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    walshb
    Registered Users Posts: 54,709 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    And Denis is a hero in Haiti.:o Lowry was reelected. Mad world!


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    MadsL
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    Do the family have any State benefits? Is Maureen Haughey still alive? Admittedly she is 87 but is she still paid a pension?


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