King or kaiser, we serve neither

I am in agreement with Donal Kennedy’s letter of June 26 — "Ireland should not honour warmongers", as I believe this to be very true of the First World War celebrations. All of the most advanced and progressive thinkers internationally opposed the First World War bitterly.

For whose benefit was the First World War fought but the rich and powerful of Europe, and it was more than a tragedy that so many Irishmen died serving the British Empire which had carried out genocide during the Famine.

In a strange way it is ‘back to the future’ now as regards ‘official Ireland’ fully supporting and kowtowing to the British monarchy while unemployment and poverty stalk the land.