Paying their respects: friends and colleagues join family in mourning

POLITICAL and business leaders joined members of Charles Haughey’s family yesterday in a requiem Mass for the former Taoiseach at Our Lady of Consolation Church in Donnycarney.

The principal mourners were Mr Haughey’s widow Maureen and the couple’s four children — Conor, Ciaran, Seán and Eimear — as well as his brother Eóghan and sister Maureen.

President Mary McAleese, who was accompanied by her husband Martin, and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern led dozens of dignitaries representing the State at the funeral Mass.