Gary Murphy

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230 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 13 Jun

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The Pat Kenny Show · 20 Years Since Charles Haughey's Death · 13 Jun 2026 podcast

Certainly the Moriarty Tribunal found three particular parts where they said Cahighi had acted in a corrupt manner.

The Cahighi family denied this for quite strenuously and vigorously at the time, and I give them some space in my book for that defence.

But I think there's something to it, this idea, as I said, of compartmentalisation.

I mean, he would finish work and go home or he would finish work and go away.

And I don't think we get that much more.

I think most politicians now are, it's the 24-7 cycle.

He didn't think like that, I think.

I think the short answer to that is yes, clearly.

I think there was a debasing of a public life by the acceptance of private monies.

I don't think so.

I think that still pervades a lot of people.

You know, you'll hear vox pops of people saying, oh, they're all in it for themselves and they betray the people.

I know more than yourself, Ciara, I've interviewed a lot of politicians, both historically and current over the years for my work.

I find them to be genuine and well-meaning.

I mean, it's difficult, as you know, for anyone to put themselves before the people at the ballot box.

I think we have a danger that...

That perverse, that view, no, that everyone's in it for themselves takes hold.

Certain some people on the extremes of politics or political life would like to think that's the case, but I don't.

But I do think Mr Hockey contributed to it, certainly, by the fact that the Moriarty Tribunal said that he had...

at least received £9.1 million over the course of his career.

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