State to pay €5m Haughey bill

The State is to pay a €5m legal bill run up by the late Charles Haughey at the Moriarty Tribunal.

The tribunal found Mr Haughey took payments of €11.5m between 1979 and 1996 and granted favours in return.

It found that the scale and secrecy of the payments devalued the quality of a modern democracy.

His family disputed the findings.

The Irish Times reports this morning that the tribunal decided some months ago he is entitled to his costs.