Editing Jack Lynch (section)

== Retirement ==
[[File:Jack Lynch Tunnel plaque.JPG|thumb|268px|right|The commemorative plaque for the [[Jack Lynch Tunnel]]]]
Following Lynch's retirement from politics the offers from various companies flooded in. He became a director on the boards of a number of companies, including [[Irish Distillers]], [[Smurfit-Stone Container|Smurfit]] and [[Aviva Group Ireland|Hibernian Insurance]]. He also embarked on a good deal of foreign travel. He was conferred with the freedom of his native city of [[Cork (city)|Cork]]. He continued to speak on political issues, particularly in favour of [[Desmond O'Malley]] at the time of his expulsion from Fianna Fáil. Lynch also declined to accept nominations to become [[President of Ireland]], a position he had little interest in. In 1992, he suffered a severe health setback, and in 1993 suffered a stroke in which he nearly lost his sight. Following this he withdrew from public life, preferring to remain at his home with his wife Máirín where he continued to be dogged by ill health.

Lynch continued to be honoured by, among others, the [[Gaelic Athletic Association]] and various other organisations. In 1999, the [[Jack Lynch Tunnel]] under the river Lee was named by [[Cork Corporation]] in his honour. A plaque was also erected at his childhood home in the Blackpool area of Cork, where a statue of him on a bench was erected after his death.

On 20 October 1999, Lynch died in the [[Royal Hospital, Donnybrook|Royal Hospital]], [[Donnybrook, Dublin]] at the age of 82. He was honoured with a [[List of Irish state funerals|state funeral]] which was attended by the [[President of Ireland]] [[Mary McAleese]], [[Taoiseach]] [[Bertie Ahern]], former Taoisigh [[John Bruton]], [[Albert Reynolds]] and [[Charles Haughey]], and various political persons from all parties. The coffin was then flown from Dublin to Cork where a procession through the streets of the city drew some of the biggest crowds in the city's history. After the Requiem Mass celebrated in his home parish of the [[Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne]], Lynch's friend and political ally, [[Desmond O'Malley]], delivered the graveside oration, paying tribute to Lynch's sense of decency. He is buried in [[St. Finbarr's Cemetery]], Cork.