Editing Charles Haughey (section)

===Second term as Taoiseach (1982)===
[[File:President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan with Charles Haughey.jpg|thumb|right|Haughey with [[President of the United States|President]] [[Ronald Reagan]] and First Lady [[Nancy Reagan]] in March 1982]]
After the [[February 1982 Irish general election|February 1982 election]], when Haughey failed to win an overall majority again, questions were raised about his leadership. Some of Haughey's critics in the party suggested that an alternative candidate should stand as the party's nominee for [[taoiseach]]. [[Desmond O'Malley]] emerged as the likely alternative candidate and was ready to challenge Haughey for the leadership. However, on the day of the vote, O'Malley withdrew and Haughey went forward as the nominee. He engineered [[confidence and supply]] agreements with the Independent Socialist TD, [[Tony Gregory]] (in return for £100 million of investment in the Dublin North Inner City; a deal dubbed the Gregory Deal), the [[Independent Fianna Fáil]] TD [[Neil Blaney]] and three [[Workers' Party (Ireland)|Workers' Party]] TDs, which saw him return as taoiseach for a second time.

In August 1982, the [[Attorney General of Ireland|Attorney General]] [[Patrick Connolly]] was the subject of controversy when a man in his house was arrested for murder. At a press conference on the affair, Haughey was paraphrased as having described the affair as "grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented", from which journalist and former politician [[Conor Cruise O'Brien]] coined the term [[GUBU]].

The issue of his leadership cropped up again when in October, [[Charlie McCreevy]], a backbench TD, put down a motion of no-confidence in Haughey. Desmond O'Malley disagreed with the timing but supported the hasty motion of no confidence. O'Malley resigned from the cabinet before the vote. A campaign was started by Haughey's supporters, with threats made to the careers of those who dissented from the leadership. After a marathon 15-hour party meeting, Haughey, who insisted on a roll-call as opposed to a secret ballot, won the open ballot by 58 votes to 22. Not long after this, Haughey's government collapsed when the Workers' Party TD's and [[Tony Gregory]] withdrew their support for the government over a Fianna Fáil policy document called "The Way Forward", which would lead to massive spending cuts. Fianna Fáil lost the [[November 1982 Irish general election|November 1982 election]] and FitzGerald once again returned as taoiseach at the head of a Fine Gael–Labour coalition with a Dáil majority. Haughey found himself back in opposition.