It’s time to abandon Béal na mBláth

THERE has been much media coverage lately of the annual Michael Collins commemoration at Béal na mBláth.

But why does Collins hold such iconic status and is he really such a good role model for young people in Ireland? Many people seem to forget it was Collins who organised the shooting dead of 13 men in Dublin as they slept in their beds in November 1920.

He also ordered the killing of Sir Henry Wilson, a Co Longford Protestant, in London in 1922