Divisive and wrong

LIKE Derek Cregan (Letters, August 19), I also respect Senator Liam Twomey’s right to express his point of view.

I do, however, reserve the right to criticise it as I believe it to be divisive, delivered in a belligerently ignorant tone and is as historically inaccurate as Mr Cregan’s reference to WT Cosgrave as “our first Taoiseach”.

The position of Taoiseach was established by the 1937 constitution. Prior to that the head of government was referred to as President of the Executive Council, a position held by WT Cosgrave between 1922 and 1932, and by Éamon de Valera between 1932 and 1937.