Got a pm from a friend and member about this thread, asking me my views on the Irish in the Great War. Like many others over here there were a couple in my family killed in action. In my own town there were four battalions raised in 1914. After the events in Dublin in 1916 fewer came forward from the area.

It was a complex time in Ireland and those who died and served faced great hardship. It should have been the war to end all wars as was promised.

Traditions have the right to recall and honour the dead from their own areas. It was a terrible loss of life.