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Maureen Haughey to attend Fianna Fáil event this week

Widow of Charles Haughey, daughter of Séan Lemass to attend 1916 commemorations

Maureen Haughey, wife of Charles Haughey, is to attend a Fianna Fáil event later this week to launch the party’s 1916 centenary commemorations. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times.
Maureen Haughey, wife of Charles Haughey, is to attend a Fianna Fáil event later this week to launch the party’s 1916 centenary commemorations. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times.
Fiach Kelly
Thu Mar 19 2015 - 10:06

Maureen Haughey, who was married to the late former taoiseach Charles Haughey, is to attend a Fianna Fáil event later this week to launch the party’s 1916 centenary commemorations.

Party sources have said Mrs Haughey, a daughter of Seán Lemass, has confirmed her attendance for the event on Friday.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin and Galway West TD Éamon Ó Cuív are due to outline a series of public commemorations to be held by the party in the run-up to the centenary. The event will take pace in the Royal College of Surgeons, which was used as a garrison for members of the Irish Citizen Army during Easter Week.

Earlier this year the party established the Coiste 1916 committee to oversee the commemorations.

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The party has invited a number of relatives of those who fought in 1916 to attend the event. Mrs Haughey was invited because of her father’s part in the Rising.