There is no need for expensive commemorations of our volunteers

I read in the local newspapers that the Lyre Volunteer Company (between Clonakilty and Ballineen) is to be commemorated with a monument costing €8,000 though it took no active part in the 1916 Rising.

These brave men would be embarrassed to know that their assembly and march from Lyre to Inchigeela to collect the anticipated guns from the ill-fated Aud is to be remembered by a local group at the expense of the public and private purse.

The group planning this commemoration say they have only received €500 of a grant from Cork County Council.