We’re out of one shadow and into another

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern says we’ve now ‘emerged from the shadow of the gunman,’ and his party, after a lapse of 35 years, wants to reclaim and commemorate ‘the real spirit’ of 1916 with a military parade.

Will the real heirs of the spirit of 1916, the Irish electorate, ever emerge from the shadow of the conman.

Rossa Ó Snodaigh

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