Irish Examiner View: 100 years after Black and Tans arrived in Ireland grave misjudgements are still possible

When the first Black and Tans arrived in Ireland 100 years ago today they could not have imagined that a century later they would still, and deservedly, provoke such anger.

Those 8,000 men who signed up, 20% of whom were Irish, may have been beguiled by “pay of 10 shillings a day... and pensions on the highest scale payable to any police force in the UK...” but their deployment was another tragic misjudgment.