Growing inequality is far more important than 1916

Over 100 articles popped up when I clicked on the 1916 commemoration hot topics section of the online Irish Examiner.

On the same page, two other headlines took my notice; Enda Kenny: If I’m re-elected ‘we will say goodbye to the USC’ and ‘USC is an unfair tax’ says Simon Coveney.

Ministers Kenny and Coveney should not wait till after the general election. Get rid of the universal social charge now.

With the abundance of 1916 anniversary events, is the nation being ‘sold a pup’, including the shocking organising of children, not much older than five years, to participate in pageants with men and woman in military regalia, members of organisations programmed to kill?

Is this government sponsored initiative another tactic to divert us from live issues like the growing divide between rich and poor?

Joe Terry

Lower Aghada

Co Cork