‘Only for Charlie, we’d have nothing’

“LOOK left and right as you walk down the pier. That’ll tell you all, boy.”

That’s how a Dingle fisherman yesterday summed up the contribution of Charlie Haughey to an area genuinely loved, since he first visited more than 50 years ago.

As news of his passing came through the fishing port and tourist town, there were only words of praise for a man that enjoyed the unconditional adulation of many of its people.