In these Celtic Tiger days, £500,000 doesn't seem an awful lot of money. That's the size of the debt that was run up by Charlie Haughey in 1976. Around the same time, one of our colleagues recalls paying £12,500 for a four-bedroom end of terrace house in Harold's Cross. On the basis of the evidence given to the Moriarty Tribunal, Haughey's debt would have bought 40 houses at that price. When the Harold's Cross house was sold last year, it made in excess of £400,000. Going on that value, the 40 houses would now be worth £16 million. That is the real measure of Haughey's indebtness.