Chipping away at Ireland’s sovereignty

The National Day of Commemoration — on the first Sunday of July each year to remember those Irish who fell during both world wars and on service with the United Nations — is most welcome.

The barbarism inflicted on our great-grandparents’ generation during the Great War is at last being given official State recognition on this day.

It is important that the memory and sacrifice of these men is protected from those would make political mischief out of them. Honouring the Irish war dead should not be confused with honouring the British Army.