Critics in life queue up to praise him in death

THE death of Charles Haughey provides further proof of our almost endless capacity for hypocrisy as politicians and commentators who vilified him in life now queue up to find positive things to say about him in death.

The justification offered is often to do with the feelings of the family at this difficult time for them.

However, we should not forget it was Mr Haughey who betrayed his wife with a very public affair over a period of three decades and that his family continue to be financial beneficiaries of his extraordinary funding arrangements.