Monument to Michael Collins overdue, says OPW minister

'I know of nowhere in the democratic world, certainly where a leader of a democratic nation is assassinated, and there is no national commemoration to him,' OPW Minister Patrick O'Donovan said.  

The Taoiseach is under mounting pressure to commission a national commemorative statue for General Michael Collins and other leaders of the Civil War.

Patrick O’Donovan, the minister with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (OPW), said the OPW can only initiate such national arts projects once a request comes from the Department of the Taoiseach.