Our current crop of politicians shouldn’t be allowed organise 1916 commemorations

In 1979 I recall, as a young boy, being introduced by my grandparents to a friend who had an interest in CB radio and electronics.

We met again the following week and he told me about radio and television transmission he toyed around with in the late 1920s. I asked if his father had helped? He said he died when he was eight, shot by the British in 1916. I didn’t pursue the conversation any further. It was later I realised I’d been talking to Thomas Clarke Junior.

When you experience things like that and read Pearse’s letter to his mother from Kilmainham Prison you realise these men and women were special. They put themselves on the line for their beliefs and were accountable for their actions.