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| | Guardian Unlimited | Obituaries | Charles Haughey |
 | | Charles Haughey, who has died, aged 80, after a long battle with cancer, was the most controversial Irish politician of his generation, and left few people in the Irish Republic unmoved. |
 | | Haughey was first elected to the Irish parliament, the Dail, in 1957, and through most of the 1960s held ministerial office under his father-in-law, the Fianna Fáil leader Seán Lemass (he had married Maureen Lemass in 1951). |
 | | But Haughey's career was one of the casualties of the violence that erupted in the north in 1969, while he was finance minister in the republic under Lemass's successor, Jack Lynch. |
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