‘O grandson of Conn, Cormac,’ said Carpre, ‘who are the worst for whom you further have a comparison?’ ‘Not hard to tell,’ said Cormac. ‘A rough, bitter, rude, violent, vehement, vulgar, impetuous, forgetful, noisy, impudent, after-wise man, to whom no one attends, who does not attend to any one, who does not care what anyone else says, while no one cares what he says, and he proscribed both by the laity and by the Church.’