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Sat 08 Aug 2010Historians unimpressed by RTÉ 'greatest' shortlist

HISTORIANS HAVE expressed reservations over the omission of certain historical figures from RTÉ’s Ireland’s Greatestshortlist.

The five figures in the running to be Ireland’s greatest will be profiled in a series on RTÉ during the autumn, having come top in a public vote to decide Ireland’s greatest man or woman.