T. Ryle Dwyer, "Charlie: The political biography of Charles Haughey" (1987), chapter 12.
Originally used at a press conference in 1982 to refer to an incident in which a wanted murderer was arrested in the house of the Attorney-General, but subsequently turned into "Grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre, unprecedented" and made a catchphrase. Sometimes rendered into the acronym "GUBU".
Famous Charles Haughey Quotes
The Flawed Chieftain http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/niall_stanage/2006/06/the_flawed_chieftain.html (The Guardian 'Comment is Free')
In an interview with Hot Press magazine
Diarmaid Ferriter, "'Controversial' Taoiseach". Sunday Tribune. 28 November 2010.
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Fintan O'Toole, "A Life and Legacy". Irish Times, 14th June 2006.
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“You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.”
BBC Ireland correspondent Leo Enright at the end of Haughey's premiership.
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“The best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning.”
On Bertie Ahern, reported in Bertie Ahern http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9804/10/n.ireland.profiles/ahern/ahern.html, CNN World News (1998).
Fintan O'Toole, "A Life and Legacy". Irish Times, 14th June 2006.
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Ex-Irish Taoiseach Haughey dies http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3001775.stm (BBC News online)
In a television documentary in the 1980s.