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• It was a bizarre happening, an unprecedented situation, a grotesque situation, an almost unbelievable mischance.
  • T. Ryle Dwyer, "Charlie: The political biography of Charles Haughey" (1987), chapter 12.
  • Originally used at a press conference in 1982 to refer to an incident in which a wanted murderer was arrested in the house of the Attorney-General, but subsequently turned into "Grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre, unprecedented" and made a catchphrase. Sometimes rendered into the acronym "GUBU".

• It's guarded by units of the British army and I can never come up to this border without experiencing deep feelings of anger and resentment.
  • Ex-Irish Taoiseach Haughey dies (BBC News online)
  • In a television documentary in the 1980s.

• I could instance a load of f*ckers whose throats I'd cut and push over the nearest cliffs,but there's no percentage in that!
  • • The Flawed Chieftain (The Guardian 'Comment is Free')
  • In an interview with Hot Press magazine

• The best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning.
  • On Bertie Ahern, reported in Bertie Ahern, CNN World News (1998).

About Haughey

• You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.
  • BBC Ireland correspondent Leo Enright at the end of Haughey's premiership.