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

And I think that would equate to well into the £20 million today.

Now, the thing about Maureen Hockey's quote about the voters, Hockey, the disaster started in public life.

He tried to get elected three times and failed.

But from his first election in 1957 to the last one he fought,

In 1989, he topped the poll at every election except the first one with these huge majorities.

He never brought Fianna Fáil over under, I think, 43 or 44 percent.

So for all the corrosiveness of his personality, he was very close to an overall majority a few times.

The people kept denying him and he kept looking for it.

And I think there's a mistake made there.

I mean, Fianna Fáil would...

If you don't mind me saying, pejoratively killed for that type of vote.

No, you know, into the 40s.

And he was a politician, in my view, that did dominate the sort of the body politic.

Himself and Gareth Fitzgerald in the 1980s were in many ways the two titans of that period.

I think he made some very good decisions and I think he made some very poor public decisions, particularly in his early years.

Remember, he came to power in 1979 as the result of a close leadership battle in Fianna Fáil against George Cawley.

And he never really had the full support of that political party until probably 1987 after Dez O'Malley had left to form the Progressive Democrats.

I think a bit of both.

If that's not sitting on the fence too much, I mean, what's that phrase?

There's no fence too high, he can't sit on both sides of it.

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