Tributes to Jack Lynch in his alma mater

A TWO-DAY conference to celebrate the life and times of Jack Lynch was opened by Taoiseach Brian Cowen at University College Cork yesterday, Lynch’s alma mater.

Mr Cowen said he was delighted to open a conference to commemorate the man who had become known as ‘the real Taoiseach’.

Mr Cowen described his predecessor as “one of the most respected and most formidable elected representatives that the Irish people have ever seen”.