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Sat 01 Jan 2009Community-rooted politician who did deal with Haughey
Tony Gregory:TONY GREGORY, who has died aged 61, rose to national prominence in the early 1980s when, as a newly elected Independent TD he struck a deal with Charles Haughey to return Fianna Fáil to government.
The multi-million-pound "Gregory deal" is now part of Irish political folklore. The Dublin Central TD received detailed written commitments from Haughey, in February 1982, for a variety of projects.
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