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  • Mourners queue to pay respects to Haughey (good riddance!!!)

    06/13/2006 10:40:14 AM PDT · by Irish_Thatcherite · 35 replies · 708+ views
    Ireland Online ^ | Jun. 13, 2006 | Not stated
    Dozens of mourners queued today to pay their respects to former Taoiseach Charles Haughey within minutes of a book of condolence being opened in the heart of his old constituency. Outside. Workers scrambled to repaint railings and touch up the flagpole where the Tricolour flew at half-mast at Our Lady of Consolation Church in Donnycarney, north Dublin. This is where the one-time TD for the area will lie in state before being buried on Friday. Joe Mirolo, 73, from nearby Clontarf was a classmate of Mr Haughey’s at St Joseph’s in Fairview. “We used to meet every year at the...