What Haydon said about Haughey
“He has acquired a taste for the good things of life, not least as a racehorse owner and a rider to hounds”
“Paradoxically, he has become a Puritan in recent years in other directions – notably in a near-total abstention from alcohol and tobacco, though he used to be a heavy drinker.”
“I think he is a tough, clever, wily man, no friend of ours, but not, perhaps, actively hostile. He is conscious of his shady past (and present!). Perhaps there is something in what one columnist wrote recently – that he is ‘Ireland’s answer to JR’ ”
