He described the catering facilities at the RDS as "unacceptable" in standard and price, before suggesting that children might be killed whilst crossing the road to obtain nutritional maintenance elsewhere and insisting that incoming Gaelic Athletic Association president Christy Cooney, an assistant director with FAS, was not involved in the move.
Cooney ran again for President three years later and was elected with over half the votes at the 2008 Congress, beating Liam O'Neill and Sean Fogarty.
The appointment of Youghal native Christy Cooney to the then IRTC - Independent Radio and Television Commission, was a significant move in the process to get C.R.Y. back on the air with a community radio licence.
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Notables to visit the wake included Cardinal Edward Daly; 1992 All-Ireland winning manager Brian McEniff; GAA President Christy Cooney, Northern Ireland's First Minister and deputy First Ministers, the Democratic Unionist Peter Robinson and Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness; sports minister Nelson McCausland, enterprise minister Arlene Foster and justice committee chairman Maurice Morrow, Baron Morrow.