Charles Haughey wrote to console Mick O'Dwyer after five-in-a-row woe

Tom Spillane, Tommy Doyle, Paidi O'Se, Taoiseach Charles Haughey, Mick O'Dwyar and Jack O'Shea after Kerry won the 1985 All-Ireland title.

A new biography of Charles Haughey has unearthed a previously unpublished letter from the Dublin native commiserating with Kerry football manager Mick O’Dwyer when his side lost an All-Ireland final.

Not just any final: Professor Gary Murphy of DCU, who wrote the biography, revealed the background to Taoiseach Charles Haughey writing a letter of commiseration to O’Dwyer, then manager of Kerry, when his side lost to Offaly in the 1982 All-Ireland final.