We need to imagine our future through the present not past

Days after its launch and the 1916 centenary website Ireland.ie has already been taken down for maintenance. 

I think it should be kept down for as long as it takes to rectify its many weaknesses. While the website and its accompanying promotional video are well intentioned it has been an embarrassing fiasco, its only redeeming feature being the soundtrack featuring Seo Linn.

The website asked us to re-imagine our future and to re-present ourselves for the Ireland of 2016. But it seems to think we can do this without any reference to the people who created the vision for an independent Irish state in the first place.