Kevin Myers: I don't believe you can separate the stupefying reverence for 1916 from the mess we're in now
There are many things that truly nauseate me about the celebrations for the Easter Rising
FIANNA Fail was quite right to celebrate the 1916 Rising with their usual enthusiasm. The insurgents created a wasteland in the centre of Dublin and destroyed hundreds of lives for no good reason, and the Government has done much the same today. Alas, this year there was no bishop at the GPO to contemplate with tearful pride the deaths of the 30 of so children who were killed in the Rising. And what japes to follow!
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