State Papers – Day One: People even sought marriage advice

A TAOISEACH has to be many things but being a marriage counsellor or delivery boy for Johnny Logan probably wasn’t on Charles Haughey’s mind when he took office.

Yet letters to him show many members of the public thought of him when they had a problem.

One 13-year-old boy from Cappamore, Co Limerick, wrote to him shortly before Christmas 1980 to ask him to have a word with the judge to urge him to be lenient in an upcoming court case.