State paid Haughey €79,780 in pension last year

FORMER Taoiseach Charles J Haughey was paid €79,780 in pension last year, while his former political sparring partner Dr Garret FitzGerald was forced to make do with slightly less at €74,794.

Details of the payments are contained in the 2002 audited financial statements of the Exchequer, published yesterday.

They also show what other former political luminaries were paid in 2002 for their services to the State.