Is it really water under the bridge when much of the country has been involved in commemorations for the past few weeks, when one of the men killed is given a STATE funeral attended by the President AND the Taoiseach, when more than 20 new books have been published in the past year, when literature, art, drama and music have all remembered the Rising, when TV and Radio produce a myriad of programmes about it.

The word cretin comes to mind, but I mustn't say that even though it fits.