O’Donovan Rossa was a terrorist monster

Playing with O’Donovan Rossa’s dynamite and his monstrous reign of terror from 1867 to the mid 1880s, is a very irresponsible policy agenda for this state to pursue. No liberal democracy on this earth would place such an evil man on a pantheon of glory.

However there are many precedences for this practice in our sad little state. That is, individuals who occupy the hero pedestal such as Patrick Pearse, who imparted to Denis Gwynn in 1913 his heartfelt wish that: “It would be better that Dublin should be laid in ruins than that the existing conditions of contentment and confident security within the British empire should continue.’’

And James Connolly, who cared not a whit for the lives of the working class of Dublin in 1916.