“WHEN you shall these unlucky deeds relate, speak of me as I am.”

CONTROVERSIAL former Taoiseach Charles Haughey will receive full military honours when he is laid to rest with a State funeral this Friday.

Former Taoiseach Charlie Haughey made mistakes but had an exceptional political career, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said tonight.

WHEN the time came to end his eventful political career, Charles J Haughey quoted Shakespeare’s Othello: “I have done the state some service, and they know it. No more of that. I pray you.”

CHARLES HAUGHEY made a rare public appearance yesterday when he was among the chief mourners at the funeral of his brother, Paraic, in Dublin.