I see various eejits are losing their reason in again over a paper flower, as if War Christmas needed some Newtonian equal and opposite reaction.

A note: there's been a war memorial in the middle of Limerick since 1929. https://www.limerickpost.ie/2017/08/11/limerick-war-memorial-sculpture/

It's very close to Charlie St. George's. Not that the club significance of that would register with this lot at all.

The first mayor of Limerick to put a wreath on that memorial was Jim Kemmy. Not that that, I suspect, would register with them either.

The one in Cork has been in the middle of the City since 1925; even that was delayed from 1924 by the quarry supplying the stone.

This is what the unveiling looked like. Part of the City were still being rebuilt after the War of Independence.

In one of my favourite details: erected by the Cork Independent Ex-Servicemen’s Club. Which had split from the Not-Cork groups.

This memorial was, and is, about remembering Corkonians.

There are lots of others around the place; Whitegate, Midleton, lots of places.

Lots of dead.

None touched.

And as to why, what these eejits never stop to ask themselves is this: you think someone like Tom Barry hated his dead friends being remembered?

Back in the 1920s, in cities that had seen Soviets, one of which had been burnt, both of which saw fighting in the Civil War, we could cope with the idea of remembering that there were Irishmen who were gone who should be remembered because they were gone.

What I would therefore suggest is that if you can’t manage what we did in the 1920s; if you can’t cope with the concept that someone who captained a team from all traditions could manage it; if you can’t cope with parity of esteem; you’re not ready for a united Ireland.