A load of cans and fags. Different times.
Was it a government or just CJH ??
Would you have been pro or anti Haughey in the 80s fagan?
The famous Sean Doherty interview was a bit mad. Here he was spilling the beans on the then Taoiseach which would cause him to resign and he could barely be heard over the bustle of the other talk and boisterousness going on.
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I always remember Phil Kearns, Campese and a few others from the Aussie Rugby team drinking away in background and Shay casually says hello to them. It was a few days after beating Ireland and they had New Zealand in semi a few days later.
Literally anyone could show up on it
I’ve always thought that Doherty had absolutely no idea what he was saying and went on a solo run with no care of the consequences. It was like he was thinking aloud, not realising it wasn’t just a hunched over Shay Healy in front of him, but thousands of people (Nighthawks didn’t exactly have Glenroe type ratings). Of course, any journo worth their salt would have been typing as Doherty spoke.
He never struck me as the brightest chap in the class, just another gombeen who shouted his support for Charlie on the chicken and chips circuit the loudest. He was rewarded for his loyalty and rewarded Charlie with his stupidity.
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Just Haughey in February 1992. Albert was spoiling for a fight with the PD’s and a general election from the minute he took over so there was an election in November 92 after he got thick with Dessie O’Malley.
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Thinking about of it now, it’s actually bizarre that Doherty was appointed Minister for Justice. While Charlie had plenty of supporters, the gene pool really didn’t improve until the late eighties with the likes of McSharry. The ministers he had (or owed) in the early eighties were horrendous.
Not another year
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If CJH wanted a MfJ to do dirty tricks it wasn’t really bizarre he went for the Doc .
That was Haughey. A bent as a dog’s hind leg.
RIP Shay.
Contributed far more to the world than Philip Mountbatten but won’t get half the press.
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Christ, anyone would think Haughey was a war-criminal. Doherty wasn’t quite the rural simpleton some portray him as. Colley attempted to block the Doc’s appointment by attempting to veto it but CJH used some crisp directives as to where Colley could go. Uno ducè Uno vocè
Didn’t Doherty do some mad stuff as Justice Minister including ordering the arrest of some bloke who was intending on bringing assault charges against Doherty’s mate so that the time limit for making the charge would run out (I think it may have been a six counties link with extradition impacts etc)?
Philip is in negative rep after bringing Andrew into the world.
Think it was Doherty’s brother in law
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The Dowra Affair. It was Doherty’s brother in law, a Garda who had been charged with assault. The Complainant was arrested just across the border in Fermanagh by the RUC on terrorism related matters on bogus information provided by the Gardai, the morning that Doherty’s brother in law was up on court on the assault charge. When the Complainant was a no show in court, the judge threw out the case against Doherty’s brother in law.
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Would you believe a Government Minister would think up such a scheme to protect an in-law, albeit a serving Garda?. Lads today wouldn’t believe such rogueary would be entertained. The sub-machine gun falling out of the Garda car he crashed while attending the Rose of Tralee festival is an even more incredible tale. Colourful is an apt description.
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Boxty circling the wagons