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IN 1981, Charles Haughey was happy to meet with Owen Carron, the newly-elected MP for Fermanagh/South Tyrone. Nine years later, Carron sits as a political prisoner in one of Haughey's jails, facing extradition to a corrupt judicial system. Haughey could have freed him and any of the other political prisoners held for extradition at any time, but he is hiding behind the Dublin judiciary. Free article

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