The public turn out in Cork to pay their respects to the former Taoiseach Jack Lynch.
Jack Lynch died on 20 October 1999 and was buried following a state funeral in his native Cork city three days later.
Born in Cork in 1917 Jack Lynch served two terms as Taoiseach, as leader of the Fianna Fail party, from 1966 to 1973 and 1977 to 1979.
People on the streets of Cork paid their respects to the man that they referred to as, the real Taoiseach. People applauded along the route of the funeral cortege and the band of the Southern Brigade played 'The Banks of My Own Lovely Lee'.
Funeral mourners travelled from around the country to say a final farewell to Jack Lynch in what was the first state funeral held in the city of Cork.
RTÉ News report broadcast on 23 October 1999. The reporter is Paschal Sheehy.
Jack Lynch (1969)
