IN the aftermath of the Easter Rising in 1916 and the significant loss of life that ensued, the poet WB Yeats posed the question: “Did that play of mine send out certain men the English shot?” Yeats was referring to his 1902 play, Cathleen Ní Houlihan, which was overtly nationalist and republican in sentiment.

Police in the North have arrested a second man in connection with the murder of Shaun Fitzpatrick in Co Tyrone over the weekend.