Churchill put British interests first

I was slightly bemused when I read Anthony O’Leary’s letter to the editor (Aug 7) entitled “What we really need is another Churchill”.

Churchill put British interests first

We have had Parnell and Pearse, Cosgrave and Collins, de Valera and Lemass, but we never had Churchill. Mr Churchill was a member of the British delegation which negotiated the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty with the Irish delegation in 1922, that British delegation which more or less said accept or else.

He was the one who successfully led the defence of Britain and indeed Europe against fascism, but was, at the same time, a leader of a country which maintained a very large colonial, and therefore undemocratic, empire.

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