“Don’t let’s be beastly to the Germans/ Don’t Let’s be beastly to the Hun…..” sang Noel Coward, with tongue firmly in cheek. For, love him or hate him, Noel Coward did have wicked sense of fun.
I don’t detect any sense of fun in the cringing poltroons responsible for degrading the centenary of the 1916 Rising.But it is hard not to recognise their damnable cheek.
They have been at it for years. A couple of years ago I stayed by the Shannon at Killaloe within sight of the site of Kincora, associated with Brian Boru one thousand years before. My hotel was on the east side of the bridge there, and had been used as a garrison by the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary in 1920 and 1921.
In November 1920 the Auxiliaries took four prisoners – Michael MacMahon, Alphie Rogers, Martin Kildea and Michael Egan, onto the bridge and murdered them in cold blood.
A Tourist Guide produced by North Tipperary and Clare County Councils says they were executed by the Auxiliary Constabulary.That is an outrageous lie. And it should outrage intelligent British people, who have been brought up to understand that Constabulary have never been legally allowed to execute anybody.
In their craven fear of being beastly to the British, the poltroons have insulted most Britons’ intelligence and decency.
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