Ask yourself just what we’re commemorating

THE Government proposes a new postage stamp and other steps to commemorate the Battle of the Somme.

But unless this experiment is finely-calculated it could, like the attempt to put a loyalist parade through O’Connell Street, go horribly wrong.

Should all of the foreign wars in which Irish people participated be commemorated, whether or not there is now a consensus in favour of the objectives for which they fought?