Showing posts with label Michael Collins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Collins. Show all posts

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Michael Collins Revisionism

Frances Fitzgerald, Minister for Justice,
Equality and Law Reform.
Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald today addressed the annual Beal na mBláth commemoration in West Cork, a celebration of the life of Michael Collins, at the place where he was killed during the Civil War. Instead of honouring the man, or making a statement of vision, or progress, Minister Fitzgerald chose instead a thinly veiled attack on Sinn Féin and the parties of protest, in anticipation of the coming general election. It was grubby, disrespectful and low, reminiscent of the excesses of her predecessors Shatter and McDowell. What is it about the portfolio that makes its ministers so dislikeable?