>Joe attended the event alongside his siblings Paudie, Pascal and Noel their wives and families.
Not so divisive when SF were the only party commemorating the atrocity in years past.
Interesting that the ‘all inclusive’ approach is the official one when one of future FG’s most infamous TD’s was involved in the cover up:
>Perhaps the most sinister aspect of the incidents was the Government response –which showed the extent to which they looked the other way at atrocities committed by their troops throughout the war. Richard Mulcahy defended Paddy Daly’s story of accidental deaths in the Dail and an Army inquiry cleared the soldiers concerned[8]. We now know, following the release of documents kept secret until December 2008, that not only did the government know that the prisoners had been murdered, they even knew who did it, a group of Dublin-based troops known as, “the Visiting Committee” in National Army circles
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https://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerryman/news/ballyseedy-survivor-urged-forgiveness-for-atrocity-29127427.html
>Joe attended the event alongside his siblings Paudie, Pascal and Noel their wives and families.
Not so divisive when SF were the only party commemorating the atrocity in years past.
Interesting that the ‘all inclusive’ approach is the official one when one of future FG’s most infamous TD’s was involved in the cover up:
>Perhaps the most sinister aspect of the incidents was the Government response –which showed the extent to which they looked the other way at atrocities committed by their troops throughout the war. Richard Mulcahy defended Paddy Daly’s story of accidental deaths in the Dail and an Army inquiry cleared the soldiers concerned[8]. We now know, following the release of documents kept secret until December 2008, that not only did the government know that the prisoners had been murdered, they even knew who did it, a group of Dublin-based troops known as, “the Visiting Committee” in National Army circles
https://www.theirishstory.com/2011/03/14/march-1923-the-terror-month/
Through the darkest days of the 80s,SF were regularly only party to send speakers to likes of kilmicheal,and Easter commerations…..
now we have the establishment wanting to make these events white-washed and sterile to appease political correctness…..
no amount of whitewashing will paper over what the state done to those men at ballyseedy