Dick Spring, the former tánaiste and Labour Party leader, spoke memorably at a packed launch of Vincent Browne’s new book Charles Haughey: Glory, Greed and Guns in the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) last Wednesday. Spring recalled being given a printout of the book to read by Browne in the inauspicious environs of Barack Obama Plaza on the M7 from Dublin to Limerick. “I can tell you, folks, you’re in for one hell of a read,” he said.  Spring said there were two great Irish political questions of the 20th century. The first was who shot Michael Collins – and the…

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