GERRY ADAMS: John Bruton ‘denigrating people of 1916’

The former taoiseach does no service to the memory of the Irish dead of World War One by denigrating the men and women of 1916, writes Gerry Adams

FORMER taoiseach John Bruton is on a crusade to revive Redmondism in Irish politics and to denigrate the men and women who gave us the Proclamation of the Irish Republic and the 1916 Rising.

Last month Mr Bruton said in London that the Rising damaged the Irish psyche. The other day he said it was “completely unnecessary” and that any State commemorations of the Rising should not “retrospectively justify violence”.