Harris decries violent republicanism at Liam Lynch commemoration

THE state should avoid “waving the green flag” and “glamourising the gun” when commemorating the centenary of the Easter Rising in 2016, former senator Eoghan Harris has said.

Mr Harris issued a blistering denunciation of physical-force republicanism — and those who had condoned or fail to condemn it — in Cork yesterday.

He was speaking at the annual commemoration in Kilcrumper to honour Liam Lynch, the IRA chief of staff killed during the Civil War.