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| 2 Tarts, 1 Cart, Molly Malone, died 1886 |
1886 DIED: Molly Malone, Dublin fishmonger, of "the fever", "Tart with the Cart" statue unveiled by Dublin's Lord Mayor in 1988, Alive Alive O
11:10
The Boss is dead. He wears the wooden kimono.
11:13
How do you know when someone is lying? Because they won't be able to tell you the same story backwards.
11:17
Done. The capo di tutti capi. He died. Not in the Big House, in the mansion:
Former Taoiseach Charles J Haughey has died after a long battle with cancer. Mr Haughey, 80, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1995. He died at his home in Kinsealy, Co Dublin just before 10am today.
11:18
Suggested epitaph:
"No one is welcome in this party if they betray the public trust." - Bertie Ahern (attrib).
11:41
As a community, he lived way beyond our means:
Charles Haughey and his entourage enjoyed a lavish lifestyle. He owned a yacht, his own island, race horses and a mansion. Many believed he was the ideal man to deal with the Irish Republic's chronic debt problem.
11:51
As I child I squirmed under his mean gaze bearing down on me from the TV. Now, I'm choking on nine-inch rusty iron-ic nails:
In 1980, he said: "The figures that are just now becoming available to us show one thing very clearly - as a community we are living away beyond our means."
BBC
13:43
A word for all our Berties:
As the old cock crows, the young cock learns.
