Dunne blames himself for ‘some hurt’ endured by Haughey

THE former supermarket tycoon Ben Dunne, yesterday said he blamed his own behaviour on causing some of the hurt and humiliation endured by Charles Haughey in the last decade of his life.

Revelations of payments of over £1 million by Mr Dunne to Mr Haughey led to the setting up of the McCracken and Moriarty Tribunals, in which deeply embarrassing details of his financial and personal life were exposed.

Yesterday, Mr Dunne said Mr Haughey’s death had a profound effect upon him as he felt partly responsible for the disgrace that was faced by the former Taoiseach in his latter years.