Mick Clifford: Sinn Féin's Ballyseedy ceremony more about the present than the past

The Ballyseedy monument. A spokesperson for Sinn Féin told the Irish Examiner that the reason behind hosting its own event was 'the horror' over what had been committed at Ballyseedy. 

Ballyseedy is an example of the toxic politicisation that can be deployed in commemorations. 

The massacre at the townland outside Tralee was the outrage that came to define, for many, the brutality of the civil war.