Honour the ‘Oskar Schindler of Killarney’ – not so-called IRA martyrs

IT was with some trepidation that I read Enniscorthy Town Council has agreed to a statue in the town to the so-called Edentubber Martyrs who died while preparing one of their own bombs just south of the border in 1957.

Why erect a status to five would-be bombers who were intent on death and destruction in Northern Ireland?

We have not erected a statue to the Enniskillen or Omagh bombers, so why the Edentubber bombers?

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