Charles Haughey at the August 1982 press conference. Photo: PA August 2022 marks the 40th anniversary of Haughey’s infamous news conference in which he uttered the sentence ‘grotesque, unbelievable, ...

IN the review (March 17) of Hugh Maxton's Gubu Roi, a title which is a delightful echo of Jarry, Hayden Murphy is mistaken in asserting that ''The title comes from Conor Cruise O'Brien's description ...

Madam, - GUBU: the Diocese of Cloyne. Anglo Irish Bank. The near-destruction of an industry by a single user of contaminated feed. Imperial excess at Fás. A Taoiseach who has come to resemble the ...

Two veteran journalists, Stephen Collins and Joe Joyce, sit down with Irish Times political correspondent Harry McGee to talk about how they remember the shocking events of 1982, when murderer Malcolm ...

He invokes that noble badge of bewilderment with plum precision, appending it to the rollicking revelations and rarified ructions of the past day, days, weeks and months, if not years. The uncanny ...

Scandal over Malcolm MacArthur killings destabilised a government and spawned an acronym No single adjective could do justice to the events that rocked Ireland in July and August 1982, so the then ...

A SENIOR detective used Charlie Haughey's infamous 'Gubu' phrase at yesterday's sitting of the Morris Tribunal to describe "sinister elements" in the murder investigation of Richie Barron in 1996. Det ...

AFTER a series of controversies involving the gardai over the past two years, it is now safe to say we have finally reached GUBU territory. Since 2012 we have had the penalty points controversy; the ...

Analysis: the current Government may have had problems, but they've a long way to go to emulate Charles Haughey's 'misbegotten' 1982 administration Although it had its detractors from the outset, most ...

A senior detective used Charlie Haughey’s infamous ‘Gubu’ phrase at the Morris Tribunal today to describe “sinister elements” in the murder investigation of Richie Barron in 1996. A senior detective ...