Begrudgers target a great man

I AM not now, nor have I ever been, a Fianna Fáil supporter. Having said that, I listened with disgust to Joe Duffy’s Liveline programme on RTÉ radio (December 20) as people took to the air to insult the memory of Charles Haughey — a great man who, like all great men, had flaws.

While he should have been ashamed of the misappropriation of the Brian Lenihan fund, everything else should be consigned to history.

Mr Haughey did many great things for this country — free travel for pensioners, tax exemption for authors and artists, and the IFSC in Dublin, to name but a few.