Prostate Cancer

An initial offer of £2m from Mr Haughey’s agents was rejected by Revenue as was another offer of £3.85m in October 2002.

However, a final figure of £3.94m or €5m was eventually agreed and later settled by Mr Haughey in March 2003.

Mr Haughey was diagnosed with cancer in 1995 and has been admitted to hospital a number of times since.

Because of this condition, the Moriarty Tribunal agreed in 2001 that Mr Haughey would no longer be required to give evidence.

He was able, however, to spend time sailing in the south of France around this time The source of Mr Haughey’s wealth had always been mystifying.

He came from a poor background and lived in a council house.

But in 1969, after a decade as a government minister, never earning more than £5,500 (€6,984) per annum, he bought one of the grandest houses in Ireland, Abbeville, a 10-bedroom Georgian mansion on the outskirts of Dublin on 270 acres.

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