No reason to differ with Prone, says Reynolds

ALBERT REYNOLDS yesterday said he had “no reason to differ” with Terry Prone’s recollection that he tried to prevent Sean Doherty from giving the famous press conference in the Montrose Hotel in January 1992 that brought Charles Haughey’s career to an end.

The former Taoiseach was responding to an interview with the communications consultant on RTÉ’s News at One arising from Ms Prone’s article in yesterday’s Irish Examiner.

The article recounted how she helped Mr Doherty prepare the statement that confirmed Mr Haughey had been aware that the phones of journalists Geraldine Kennedy and Bruce Arnold had been tapped; and moreover, that he had read the transcripts. On the evening of the press conference Ms Prone told her husband, Tom Savage, for the first time about what Mr Doherty was going to say.