Cork's 'real taoiseach' is voted best-ever in a Sunday Independent telephone poll, with twice as many votes as ..
... stupidity of the English. Our greatest men were Whigs: Edmund Burke was a Whig, Grattan was a Whig, even Swift, despite his dalliance with the Tories, said in the end that he had always been a real Whig. DE VALERA'S petulant and irresponsible reaction ...