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Updated 2.05pm
TAOISEACH LEO VARADKAR has signed the book of condolence for former Fine Gael Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave this afternoon in Dublin following his passing late last night.
The book was opened in Cosgrave’s heartland of Dun Laoghaire, at the County Hall on Marine Road in the south Dublin locality at 11am today.
Speaking in the Dáil this lunchtime, Varadkar described Cosgrave as “courageous”, “determined” and a “man of great loyalty and kindness”.
He said: “Consistently opposed to violence, Liam Cosgrave was a courageous voice against terrorism, and protected the State in times of crisis. He looked terrorism in the eye and did not flinch.
His term as Taoiseach between 1973 and 1977 will be remembered for Sunningdale, the qualities he brought in leading a successful coalition government, and his courageous defence of the State against threats internal and external.
“Liam Cosgrave’s entire life was in the service of the State. He inspired so many with his quiet, determination, courage and fortitude. Liam Cosgrave is perhaps best summed up by paraphrasing one of his most famous speeches: he was a man of integrity who, totally disregarding self-interest, always served the nation.”
Book of condolence
In announcing the book of condolence, Fianna Fáil chairman of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Tom Murphy said that he felt “great sadness” upon learning of Cosgrave’s passing.
“It was with great sadness that I learned of the death of former Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave. Mr Cosgrave represented the Dun Laoghaire area with great distinction in Dáil Éireann for 38 years,” he said.
I wish to offer my deepest condolences to the Cosgrave family, his Fine Gael colleagues and his wide circle of friends in Dun Laoghaire.
The news of Cosgrave’s passing at the age of 97 emerged late last night.
Over four decades since he last held public office, men and women from all sides of the political divide joined and issued statements praising the life and career of a man who attempted to guide Ireland through its fledgling nationhood in the 50s as Minister for External Affairs. Then again in the 1970s, Cosgrave, as Taoiseach, was the man who dealt with growing discontent in the North.
As Taoiseach, Cosgrave served for just over four years between March 1973 and July 1977.
He’ll be remembered for bringing Northern Ireland to the brink of peace with the 1973 Sunningdale Agreement.
‘Very, very kind’
This morning, politicians who knew Cosgrave from both sides of the civil war divide came forward to pay tribute to him.
Speaking to RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, former Fianna Fáil leader Bertie Ahern said that Cosgrave was “always a very kind man”.
“When I went into Dáil Éireann in 1977 he was just finishing, but I always found he would have a kind word to say to you afterwards. You’d be nervous with your early speeches, you’d be wondering who was taking notes, but he’d wait and say a kind word to you outside,” Ahern said.
I met him time after time in the years after, but I mostly met him in Croke Park, he always attended the finals, but he wouldn’t get involved in politics after. He’d talk about the issues of the day that were not political. Always a very kind man. And I think he had an amazing, long, and I think very good life.
Former Fine Gael leader and Taoiseach John Bruton reiterated Ahern’s words on the same programme, describing Cosgrave simply as a “very, very kind person”.
“If one was in difficulty he could be exceptionally kind,” he said.
I had some difficult moments in private and he was always a very, very kind person to me.
One of the first statements of condolence to drop last night was from Sinn Féín president Gerry Adams.
“I want to extend my condolences to the family and friends of former Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave on his passing this evening. I also want to express my sympathies with the leader of Fine Gael, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and to the Fine Gael party on the death of their former leader,” he said.
Fianna Fáíl leader Michéal Martin remarked on the “extraordinary career” Cosgrave had.
Martin noted that until today, he was the last Taoiseach to be born prior to the foundation of the State. It is also extraordinary to think that a member of the 1948 inter-party government, formed almost 70 years ago, was still with us until today.
As the son of WT Cosgrave he was quite literally born into our public life and in his lifespan he lived the history of independent Ireland. First elected to Leinster House in 1943, he sat beside his father on the Dáil benches. When Fine Gael came to office in 1948 he was Chief Whip (or Parliamentary Secretary to the Taoiseach as it then was) and also served as Minister for External Affairs in the 1950’s where he saw Ireland’s application to join the United Nations come to fruition.
During his time in the country’s highest political office he presided over a coalition described as a ‘government of all talents’.
With 1973 the Sunningdale Agreement, he came close to bringing an end to the conflict in the six counties, which continued for another quarter century.
The agreement, which was signed and in part negotiated by Cosgrave’s government, could have ushered in a power sharing executive in the North. However, opposition to the agreement from unionists saw it collapse.
Former Taoiseach John Bruton, who had served in Cosgrave’s government, described how he managed to put the nation’s interests at the heart of everything he did. Cosgrave, according to Bruton, was a man who did not seek out attention and was a “modest and brilliant man”.
Speaking to RTÉ, he said:” He was a pioneer in many ways. In 1965, he became leader of Fine Gael and injected a strong element of badly needed professionalism into the party’s work.
“In 1970, and again in 1972, he took vital political stands, as leader of the opposition, to protect the integrity and security of the State. In both instances, he put the country’s interest before his own political advantage.
In private and in public, he was the same – self effacing, modest and kind. He was authentic in every way.
Enda Kenny followed this train of thought and described Cosgrave as a man of “great loyalty, old fashioned courtesy, personal warmth” and someone who always had a great sense of humour”.
“I had the honour to serve under his leadership and to learn from him. He was no ideologue but was rooted in common sense. He had a genuine rapport with people and was always conscious of the impact of policy on people’s everyday lives.
“His closeness to people and willingness to work for them was reflected in the fact that he invariably headed the poll in his beloved Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown constituency,” Kenny concluded.
Liam Cosgrave led a Fine-Gael Labour coalition during turbulent times in the 1970s, alongside Tánaiste and Labour leader Brendan Corish.
Brendan Howlin,on behalf of the Labour Party, described the former leader as a “gentleman”.
He said: “I know Liam was a very close personal friend of Brendan’s from that time, and as my own mentor, Brendan often told me what a gentleman Liam Cosgrave was, and how generous of spirit he was.
“I had the privilege of meeting Liam Cosgrave myself on many occasions with his daughter Mary, and he really was a gentleman to his fingertips; a true patriot.
“On behalf of the Labour Party, I would like to extend my deepest sympathies to Mary, Liam’s sons Liam and Ciarán and extended family, as well as his many friends, former colleagues and all in the Fine Gael party.”
Cosgrave is survived by by his three children Liam, Mary and Ciaran.
With reporting by Cianan Brennan and Sean Murray
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There’s families in Dublin and Monaghan who would strongly disagree with that headline.
@Leadóg: Yup , that’s the truth ! He may have erred , but the tragedy happened under his watch & it is near proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that English ”special services ” planned & equipped the whole operation !
@Andy Lawrence Moore: Maybe his options could have been limited. He made the right decisions at the time.
@Declan Hegarty: That “part of the population” was a subversive terrorist group who, until recent years, didn’t recognise the state or its government.
Gerry Adams said in the Dail today: “He said the former Taoiseach had a long career and his family and the Fine Gael were rightly proud of his achievements.”
Good enough.
@Declan Hegarty: The terrorists posed a clear and present danger to the state, its citizens and its army/ gardai. As we’ve seen through various attacks, murders, maiming etc. I’m glad you think they deserve hugs and understanding. The government didnt. I agree with them.
@Leadóg: Agreed.. 1974 bombings were an act of war perpetrated by the secret services of a foreign nation. Cosgrave couldn’t have cared less as soon as he knew it wasn’t the IRA.. He was a coward at best..An accessory to murder at worst.
@David Murphey: Adams should just go away .No decent members of the public really give a fu#k about the hypocrisy that comes out his mouth
@owen kirwan: Maybe we should leave it up to the people of Louth to decide when Mr Adams should “go away”
Oh Mr varadkar, he’d have had no time for you….
Those that vote for him do Mr.kirwan.
Lived as he died, creaming off the state, never achieved anything special, and now the expense of a state funeral (i presume).
Even in death he’s still costing the taxpayer.
@Trevor Hayden: You’re a class act man. Take a bow.
@Honeybadger197: Call a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel honeybadger
@Trevor Hayden: the most important issue with Cosgrave dying is what type of housing is going to be planned on that huge plot of wasted land he was hedging. I reckon crowded apartments knowing the kids financial desires, but hopefully it will be elegant housing.
@Gulliver Foyle: Oh and don’t forget one of those poor unfortunate builders who received such horrible treatment at the hands of NAMA, we must give them the opportunity to redeem themselves by building them.
@Trevor Hayden:
@Brendan Keegan: I think Trevor you don’t know a thing about him. He was not like the trash that came in your time he stood for what he believed in. I never thought he was interested in the money or the power.If hecwas on a big pension it wasn’t him that gave it to him. I am not a supporter of the gangsters in power. He came from a different time.
@Trevor Hayden: .He was a good and decent man who made sure Welfare Recipients were looked after in his budgets. Social Housing was also provided on his watch. He did his job without airs and graces either.
@Trevor Hayden: You are a very bitter man.
@Ciaran O’Mara: How so Ciarán, should we celebrate bosco for children’s entertainment?
Or how about Eddie Hobbs for telling us all to invest in property with our ISA?
Or the healy-raes for trying to promote drink driving?
A failure is a failure no matter how you look it and Cosgrave fall into that category.
@Trevor Hayden: If Cosgrave is your benchmark of failure, would you outline who you consider a success in Irish Politics. Assuming you can reach a bit further than bosco and eddie hobbs?
@Honeybadger197: There is not one I can name honeybadger, for the past century weve been ran by FF /FG and various coalitions.
What we’ve lacked is true leadership and a proper opposition party to challenge these two.
This country will never change for the better as long as these two are in power or partial power because they’ll continually back each other to keep the backhanders and corruption in their favour.
@Gulliver Foyle: Really? The most important thing in his death is that we cam now build more apartments or houses? It is private land owned by his family and is only a few acres. A 97 year old man was hedging land? He lived in a small bungalow on it for 50 years. The fact he didnt cash in like everyone else and sell it speaks volumes for the man. Just like your pathetic little comment speaks volumes about you.
@Paul P O’Sullivan: Disgusting is millions of taxpayers money been wasted on a politician with no real worth paul.
@Trevor Hayden: There is a time and a place to criticise the man but not on the day he dies. It’s called common humanity. I happen to have critical views of Mr Cosgrave but this is not the time to express them.
@Paul P O’Sullivan: I care little for eulogising politicians, nor land. When the fawning stops by people who didn’t know the man, the world will carry on. I knew him a little bit to say hello to as he went on his little walks up towards Doherty’s, but that is nothing related to the nonsense greatness we bestow on politicians every time one of their own dies. No animosity, not faux-grief, and no pedestals – it’s how everyone should go.
Ciaran O’Mara. He’s a realist. Bitter because he speaks the truth?
Why is it that with all of the praise that he is getting no one is mentioning the fact that he helped cover up the worst atrocity on Irish soil during the troubles and colluded with the British government to allow the murderers of the Dublin/ Monaghan bombings to get off scott free?
@Brian Ward: having been caught up on that bombing I agree with you. Don’t think the current crowd of tories (FG) wouldn’t do the same.
Not to mention the activities of the Heavy Gang during that four years of his tenure.
@Lita Campbell: The culture of Garda corruption can be traced back to the Heavy Gang. He and his government turned a blind eye to their activities and consequently an air of impunity grew within the force. It is still with us today … worse, in fact.
The Sallins train robbery was the start. Check it out. Every scandal since then has grown in audacity culminating in what we have today… a rogue Police force.
That’s the main legacy of the Cosgrave Government, I’m afraid.
@ Brian ward. Because you don’t speak ill of the dead. No matter what they did. This is Ireland
Another politician that’s all
Welcome to the new breed of criers, see above. Agree with nothing, pay for nothing……est circa 200i8
@Alan McCartney: absolutely Alan. Sit in their arse all day, moaning about everyone else and sniping about pensions. This man served his country for decades and those close to him have described him as a modest and decent man who was not interested in self promotion unlike a lot of other politicians. RIP
@kevin: he was a barrister turned politician. He left politics in 1981 and took a large pension for the last 36 years. Very unlikely that he served the country just himself. He did not serve the country for decades. He was after all from a political dynasty(dysentery).
@Paul Coughlan:37 years because he lived to 97, it is a huge issue with public sector pensions in general, there is not a teacher over 60 working, yet the pension age is currently 67 and will increase in the near future as life expectancy increases along with a lager aging demographic in the country.
@Paul Coughlan: he was the only former Taoiseach who gifted part of his pension back to the State following the financial crash
@shits ville: Is that so? I know that Ahern promised to do that – but did not.
Just when I thought comments on The Journal could get no lower I read these ones this morning. Whatever your political allegiance, show some respect. There’s a time and a place your your political whining and rants, this is not one of them.
RIP Liam Cosgrave.
@Anto Curran: show him the same respect he showed Frank Stagg when he ordered that his body be buried under concrete.
@Anto Curran: better to say it as it is
@Anto Curran: Where was his governments respect for frank stagg???
@Stan: Whatever happened to those days when you could explicitly threaten individuals government members with death by “four pieces of lead” whenever you took a slight that they stopped you from shooting guns at funerals as if you were a real army? Happy, easy going, days for SF!
He was a decent man who tried to his best for his country.
@MiseBean: like what
@MiseBean: that sounds like an excuse when you can’t think of something they did, but they are part of the establishment that needs an epitaph for the sake of it (like that standard civil service nonsense of given the state service – for €150k a year). Basically, he was taoiseach because of his dad, and people were sick of FF at the time. He was an unremarkable one at that.
Having drawn a vulgar€6,240000 in pensions
There is no politician worth that
@Tony Hartigan: you must be a very bitter little man Tony. You should take a look in the mirror. Did you take into the account the time value of money in your mean spirited little calculations.
I am not a FG lackey but I used to meet this gentleman walking in my area and doing his own shopping in Knocklyn. He was always very pleasant and nobody knew who he was. He could work all those damn check out machines even in his nineties. Sorry to see him go because he was a decent Irishman.
@Brendan Keegan: the true mark of a great Irish man – being able to use the self service check out machines in a supermarket.
@ Brendan Keegan. Well that’s all right then. Decent man. No matter who suffered at his behest. I dispute of these lily livered people.
Despair
“A great man”, “a great patriot” the usual nonsense from the faux sympathy brigade. He was a traitor.
@Arnold Lane: He was a sound old skin.They might talk about him for a bit longer than the rest of us.they will talk about us for three days-the day we die the day in the church and the day they put us down.
@Arnold Lane: another gem, Arnold.
Care to back up that statement with some evidence, or an anecdote, even?
@David Murphey: Yawn!
@Arnold Lane: So, you’re just looking for attention.
Like here: “…It warms the cockles of my heart though, to know I get to you so much. Also you slept “f***” wrong.”
http://www.thejournal.ie/liam-cosgrave-dead-taoiseach-1700395-Oct2017/
@David Murphey: ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz.
I am astonished at the vitriol directed towards this man on his passing. I feel a huge sense of sadness for people who see nothing but bad in people.
So nauseating to see all the crap being spewed by the Fascist Gobdaws and their media shills about backward, conservative Cosgrave.
‘A courageous voice against terrorism’ says Varadkar. Really? He cowardly caved in to the demands of the Dublin/Monaghan and Miami mass murderers for increased collaboration with British terrorism in Ireland.
Even told blatant lies about the murder of FG member Seamus Ludlow to attack republicans and cover up Brit terror.
https://perceptionsofpregnancy.com/2015/03/08/leader-opposed-contraception-legislation/
Might I suggest as the “Book of Condolence “the back of the Dail restaurant menu.
The man should be remembered for his ruthless devotion to his family and friends, to the establishment, partition, his obscene pension, and political policing…..
Let’s not forget the big fat pension he’s been getting
‘Mongrel fox’.
Blueshirt…
RIP he was very conservative as FG still are more suited to the UK Tory party.
He played a huge role in defeating the PIRA terrorist organisation.
No wonder the shinnerbots are out.
I saw an old news reel of poor children in Dublin without shoes. It also showed Liam and his siblings pony riding in the grounds of their house. So much for cherishing the children of the nation equally. He was a scion of the political establishment born to privilege. He was a small man who liked to look down on the rabble from the back of a horse. R.I.P.
RIP. I dunno what he was like, before my time, but another dail session totally wasted on talking about him, there is a time and a place for that, the news, the funeral, not the dail.
Cosgrave’s political weakness and that of his colleagues during the 50s & 60s was a failure to provide decent working class Irish with reasonable work opportunities which saw hoards of youth hit the mail boat and aeroplanes to seek a decent standard of living abroad. While there is always condolences and praises for prominent politicians, there should also be a balancing criticism of their failures and the UK, Australia, NZ,
Canada are pickled with Irish emigrants and their decendants who have no say whatsoever now in how Ireland is politically managed.
I’m allright, Paddy, and bugger the emigrants….eh, we just want their tourist lollies…eh?
The Journal should be ashamed for allowing the bitter commentary of a few trolls – on the day after the man’s death. The man has a family and friends who deserved solace and comfort on this day.
@Bull Spite: It’s called free speech, but then you blueshirts don’t like that…
@Neil Farrell: You may have freedom of speech but you have no dignity.
@Bull Spite:
The truth is more important than palaver because we need a truthful history;
not spin. Ireland’s 1950-1960s was a scandal because those entrusted to manage the country politically & economically failed abysmally as evidenced
by the standards of living of the Irish working class and mass emigration.
My parents could not afford us a secondary education let alone feed & cloth us properly while silvertails like Cosgrove were sending their kids to Clongowes Wood & Trinity & living high off the taxpayer.
Needless to say, my family had to emigrate and suffer the indignities of the
Irish Paddy jokes just to have a decent standard of living while Fine Gael, Fianna Fail & the Catholic Church were fending for themselves & bugger
the working class.
If Cosgrave was a decent man, I’m sure he’d prefer if our politicians done a days work in the dail (for a change) other than spending their working time talking about him. These idiots will be expecting a double pay rise soon because they say they didn’t take the last pay rise, they don’t deserve it.
Amazingly all the politician swanning about his public service record which may I remind you he was handsomely paid for his pension alone amounted to €6.2 Million + Garda protection 24 × 7 for 40 years. Maybe these politicians are already looking forward to their VULGAR pensions. May I say there is no one deserving of those VULGAR pensions.
All politicians ,even the ones that try their best end in failure ,not my word’s
What’s the furore for varadkar signing book of condolence. He’s the leader of FG. Any thing more important to report
No loss to Ireland. He was a traitor and sided with the British when they were murdering his fellow countrymen in the North. Even tried to cover up that the British bombed Dublin and Monaghan in case it caused people to support the IRA.
Enough already. All roads lead to the grave.
Diabhal Moran a bhi le rá ag Gerry Adams faoi shaol agus saothar Liam Cosgrave (nach maireann). B,annamh leis!!!
Varadker was not born when Cosgrave resigned.
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