We betrayed one generation. Are we willing to do it all over again?

Charlie McCreevy had the courage to move a ‘no confidence’ motion in Charlie Haughey’s leadership in October 1982, but the great majority in the parliamentary party did not have the vision, the guts or the integrity to support his motion, so Haughey survived.

THERE are none so stupid as those who do not learn from their mistakes. Yet we persist in scapegoating some politicians while ignoring others who facilitated them for their own selfish reasons.

In time, Charles Haughey will probably be remembered in the same light as Boss Tweed or Boss Croker, two Irish-American politicians who elevated political corruption to an art form at Tammany Hall, New York. They left some magnificent buildings behind them, but they robbed the people blind in the process.