Fishermen unveil Haughey monument

DINGLE fishermen paid their own personal tribute to former Taoiseach Charles Haughey yesterday by unveiling a bronze bust of their “very good friend” in the harbour.

Local fisherman and Irish Fish Producers Organisation chief executive Lorcan Ó Cinnéide said they wanted to honour a Taoiseach in the truest sense of the word.

“As the fishing community in Dingle, we were not blind to Mr Haughey’s shortcomings, but we took him the way we found him which was the soul of kindness, of wit and of genuine concern for us,” he said.