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Article: Ire land.(former Irish prime minister Charles Haughey)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- September 29, 1997
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DUBLIN FIVE years after he retired as Irish prime minister, or Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, the most controversial politician in Ireland over the past half-century, is now disgraced, a figure of contempt and a symbol of unutterable sleaze. His entire career has been dedicated to the acquisition of power, money, and a place in the history books. All that beckons now is poverty and maybe even a prison cell as he faces prosecution for receiving $2-million backhanders from a supermarket tycoon and for perjury before the Irish equivalent of a grand jury. It is all, in fact, GUBU. Conor Cruise O'Brien invented the term GUBU in 1983, after Haughey had called the discovery of a young ...
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