Letters to the Editor: We must show our gratitude to our liberators

Erecting statues of Micheal Collins, Padraig Pearse, Arthur Griffith, and Éamon de Valera would 'give meaning to The Spire'. 

Ireland and its people have had a terrible history: Since the Normans wrestled and plundered the land from the Gaelic Irish, the number of massacres and taking and making slaves of the Irish by the British were many and regular.

The unfortunate local men who went to stop bullets that were meant for English men in the First World War have been commemorated. Some fought for England, some for a living, and some for the promise of Home Rule at John Redmond’s appeal.