Letter to the Editor – Myers’ Comments on McAleese & 1916
Madam, – Kevin Myers makes much of the horrendous suffering experienced by innocent civilians and members of the security forces during the 1916 Easter Rising. In these more peaceful and democratic times it is a fair point to make.
Could he not, however, condemn the bloody, ugly and ultimately counter-productive premeditated murder of the leaders of the Rising, no matter how misguided he believes those men to have been?
This Irish Republic deserves far more than the distorted critique of our State’s founding far too often uttered by Mr Myers in his much more justified work of opposing the enemies of our State – Sinn Féin/IRA. – Yours, etc,
Cllr DERMOT LACEY
