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It's only relevant if the blackmail would be effective: if someone had tried to blackmail Haughey with his affairs he'd have laughed at them - everyone in the media knew already. It would have been  relevant in the US or UK because it's a big deal there.

Now, if Haughey had been busing loads of starlets out to his Kinsealy mansion or flying them out to his island, that might have been a different matter. Though it would have been a pretty small bus in those days.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Jun 23rd, 2009 at 05:37:37 AM EST
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They don't have to plain vanilla affairs. Get your mark drunk or drugged enough, scatter a few teenagers around, and you have yourself some solid leverage, even if it's not something the mark would usually do.

Pillow talk has proven expensive too.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue Jun 23rd, 2009 at 04:19:58 PM EST
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