Haughey, the TV version, is fine but his true legacy is another story

THE programme-makers of the current series of documentaries about Charles Haughey could not have wished for better timing.

In the run-in to the first instalment of the series on RTÉ last Monday night, there was the untimely death of Sean Doherty, a central political personality during the rise, reign and fall of Haughey.

Then, after months of silence, the Moriaty Tribunal investigating Haughey’s finances reopened public hearings this week with new lines of enquiry about the circumstances in which the former Taoiseach apparently arranged meetings between Ben Dunne and the then chairman of the Revenue Commissioners.