Readers Blog: Official ‘silence’ on Haughey kill plot is eerie

Is there an official silence on the alleged past British plot to have our former taoiseach, Charlie Haughey, assassinated?

Readers Blog: Official ‘silence’ on Haughey kill plot is eerie
Mon, 08 Jan, 2018 - 00:00

Is there an official silence on the alleged past British plot to have our former taoiseach, Charlie Haughey, assassinated?

One would have assumed that the political and media establishment of this country would be irate, since learning, last week, that MI5 asked the UVF to murder Charlie Haughey in the 1980s.

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