A friend on another discussion board posted this and I liked it:
'They make war [O'Neill, O'Donnell] as the outlaws and bandits of Catalonia and Calabria do'. Virote Diego Brochero, the naval commander of Kinsale, to the king.
Finn O'Breanan Wood Kerne
"...The O'Brennans, a sept of thieves without any right or title, ... were a perpetual disturbance to the peace of the county,"