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Article: Ireland's old Machiavelli keeps mum on cash scandal

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The Independent (London, England)
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December 6, 1996
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At his palatial mansion in north Dublin, the former taoiseach Charles Haughey was observing a vow of silence yesterday over suggestions in a magazine that he was the Fianna Fail politician who received more than pounds 1m in secret payments from the supermarket executive Ben Dunne.

The revelation that fat cheques from Mr Dunne went across the political spectrum is turning into the biggest and most compelling political intrigue in Ireland for years.

Although no definitive statement was forthcoming from either the retired politician or his solicitors, a source close to the former party leader said he was strongly denying that he was the recipient. Every conversation in Ireland this week has ...

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