RIGHT TO HONOUR GALLIPOLI HEROES

Irish Independent
March 25 2010

I am so glad that the President is laying a wreath in Gallipoli for
the 3,000 Irish dead, of whom about 1,000 were from Co Limerick.

Critics of this high-risk, badly managed campaign summed it up as
follows: "They fought for King and country and died for nothing."

They were fighting, in the words of Woodrow Wilson, to make the
world a safe place for democracy. Pearse referred to the Turks as
our "gallant allies", the Turks at this stage had massacred over one
million Armenian Catholics.

The 10th Irish Division were both Catholics and Protestants fighting
side by side, many recruited in a mass rally in Lansdowne Road. Had
Gallipoli succeeded and had the allies got supplies up to Russia,
the history of Russia and Ireland might have been different.

Stephen Fallon co Limerick

Irish Independent

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