Enniscorthy Town Council in Co Wexford, Republic of Ireland has decided to approve a memorial on a public site in the town to honour IRA terrorists who died on their way to plant a bomb in Northern Ireland.
The memorial was unanimously agreed by the councillors following a request from an organisation called Coiste Cáirde na Laochra. The memorial will be erected “in remembrance of those who played their part in the struggle for Irish freedom”. The reality is that they were on their way to cause murder and mayhem in part of the UK.
If any council in the UK approved a memorial for a Loyalist group who had tried to bomb somewhere in the Republic of Ireland, it would be major news. The UK Government should make a formal complaint to the Government of the RoI and ask that Enniscorthy Town Council reverse this disgraceful decision to support terrorist murderers.
Make your views known to the councillors involved. The views of some of them is given in this report in the Enniscorthy Echo.
Monday 25 January 2010
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Some of the councillors have been receiving complaints about the proposed terrorist memorial. They need to review their decision as soon as possible.
ReplyDeleteThe Fine Gael chief whip says he is “unhappy” and “hugely concerned” over this matter. He now needs to ensure that the matter is brought back before the council.
ReplyDeleteAt least one of the Fine Gael politicians is honest enough to say that he didn't really know what he was voting for! Although it's a little worrying ... !
ReplyDeleteTom Moorehouse said: "We get so many people asking for monuments, we must have more bits of stone around than any other council area".
The momument has now been installed. The spokesman for the group said he “didn’t realise there was going to be such a hullaballoo” about the memorial. Oh, so it's normal to put up memorials to terrorist organisations?
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