What kind of republic has no room for two frightened little girls?

ANOTHER year, another military parade. Another reading of the Proclamation of Independence on the steps of the GPO.

The numbers attending these parades seem to be declining each year, as if commemorating the dead of 1916 didn’t seem to have a huge amount of relevance nowadays.

But we have to go through the motions. On the website of the Department of the Taoiseach, for instance, there’s a whole section devoted to the 1916 Rising and its importance.