Haughey brother passes away after long illness

THE death took place yesterday of Pádraig ‘Jock’ Haughey, a brother of the former Taoiseach.

The late Mr Haughey died in a Dublin nursing home after a long illness.

An All-Ireland great with Dublin’s senior football team of the 1950s, he was at the centre of a Supreme Court case over 30 years ago which set out the basic rights of people appearing before tribunals of inquiry.

When violence erupted in the North in August 1969 older brother Charlie, then Minister for Finance, sent Jock and three others on a mission to Britain.

“The purpose of the visit was to mobilise assistance for relief of distress in the North,” Charlie later explained.

In London in 1969 Jock Haughey gave chief of staff of the IRA Cathal Goulding £1,500.

Jock then smuggled a consignment of weapons through customs and gave them to the IRA after clearing customs at Dublin airport but was not charged with any involvement in the alleged conspiracy to import the weapons at the centre of the Arms Trial.