Collins the greatest, but country unfair and impoverished

Broadcaster and sports pundit George Hook has said Ireland is a country that is unfair and impoverished ahead of his address at the annual Michael Collins commemoration this weekend.

The Newstalk radio show host insisted that Collins’s legacy still lives on today and that he was the greatest man that ever lived.

Pulling no punches, the long-time Fine Gael supporter said that colleagues had deemed him the “last person alive fighting the Civil War”.