Haughey ‘took equivalent of €45m’

DISGRACED former Taoiseach Charles Haughey took the equivalent of

The fortune, amassed from payments by senior businessmen and taxpayers via the Leader’s Allowance, funded a lavish lifestyle “vastly” beyond Mr Haughey’s public earnings.

The Fianna Fáil leader also pilfered a major chunk of the £265,000 raised for a liver transplant operation for his former colleague Brian Lenihan.