abstract:John Arnold Lynch was an Australian rules footballer who played with West Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) from 1948 until he retired after the 1958 season.
They were both acquitted in the subsequent trial and Mr Haughey went on to become Taoiseach in 1979, succeeding the prime minister who sacked him, JackLynch.
As a young man JackLynch (he was never John) gained fame in his native Cork in Gaelic football, in which players can use their hands as well as their feet, and in hurling, an Irish form of hockey.