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==Death and funeral== Haughey's attendance before the tribunals had repeatedly been disrupted by illness.<ref name=rte-illness>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rte.ie/news/2000/1016/9443-moriarty/|title=Moriarty refuses to accept Haughey cannot continue to give evidence|publisher=[[RTÉ News]]|date=16 October 2000}}</ref> He died from [[prostate cancer]], from which he had suffered for a decade, on 13 June 2006, at his home in [[Kinsealy]], [[County Dublin]], aged 80.<ref name="RTÉ-Haughey">{{Cite news|url=https://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0613/77230-haugheyc/|title=Haughey to get State funeral on Friday|publisher=[[RTÉ News]]|date=13 June 2006}}</ref> Haughey received a [[List of Irish state funerals|state funeral]] on 16 June 2006.<ref name="RTÉ-Haughey"/> He was buried in [[St. Fintan's Cemetery, Sutton]] in [[County Dublin]], following mass at [[Donnycarney]]. The funeral rites were screened live on [[RTÉ One]] and watched by a quarter of a million people. It was attended by President [[Mary McAleese]], members of the [[Oireachtas]], many from the world of politics, industry and business.<ref name=it-funeral>{{Cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/focus/haughey/newsstory1.htm|title=Haughey laid to rest after sombre State funeral|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|date=16 June 2006|access-date=23 September 2008|archive-date=23 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101023094802/http://www.irishtimes.com/focus/haughey/newsstory1.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Taoiseach Bertie Ahern delivered the graveside oration.<ref name=ahern-speech>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0616/77348-haughey/|title=Charles Haughey laid to rest in Dublin|publisher=[[RTÉ News]]|date=16 June 2006}}</ref> The chief celebrant was Haughey's brother, Father Eoghan Haughey.
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