Bloody conflict: members of the Red Cross carry the coffin of a soldier killed in the Civil War. Picture: Getty
The pandemic has the curious ability to distort our sense of time. It seems a lifetime ago since the controversial plan by the then minister for justice Charlie Flanagan to commemorate the Royal Irish Constabulary was shelved. There was even some suggestion that the brouhaha over the abandoned centenary event, earmarked for Dublin Castle in January 2020, affected the outcome of the general election the following month.Subscribe from just €1 for the first month!
ElaineByrne That’s quite a progressive idea Elaine but it won’t happen
ElaineByrne ... If you write, about the mass Genocide, that fraudulent so called 'Journalists', call a famine. .. And ask the West British (Irish) families, who's ancestors put a weekly wage before their own people, to commemorate their victims. .. I would be all for it. ...