Throughout his political career, Charles J. Haughey has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: The Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane revelations, the Moriarity Tribunal and the McCracken...
Secret service agents claimed he had pulled a gun on them, but Collins dismissed this. ‘There is not the slightest doubt that there was no intention whatever to arrest Mr Lynch,’ he wrote. ‘Neither is there the slightest doubt that he was not in possession of a revolver.’ ...