Time for pundits to grow up and get over their Wolfe Tones fixation

DURING the week a member of the Wolfe Tones folk group gave a radio interview, complaining bitterly about Fintan O’Toole for essentially being anti-national.

It was probably also partly in reaction to a blistering critique by one of Fintan's colleagues, Kevin Myers. Kevin complained about their "cretinously nationalistic caterwauling lyrics of imbecilic banality". I think we can take it that he doesn't like the Wolfe Tones or their music.

Describing them as "an important social phenomenon," however, he wrote that they "provided the soundtrack to over 30 years of war." It was a nice soundbite, but a hysterical distortion.