“I did want to take it fairly coldly. I suspect my father might be looking down from or looking from his grave and going, ‘A bit too coldly, you bastard’.”
Charles Haughey and Garret Fitzgerald were the two big beasts of Irish politics in the 1980s. One a patrician born to rule, the other a northsider who assumed the wealth and airs of an aristocrat. But what is their legacy? On today’s podcast Eoin O’Malley talks to Dion Fanning about his new book on the two men and why his own father Des O’Malley might question some of the conclusions in the book.
