The Fianna Fáil Mayor of Clare has said he will boycott a commemoration service for the Royal Irish Constabulary and has called on An Garda Síochána to distance itself from the event. Fianna Fáil general election candidate Cathal Crowe said the decision to commemorate the RIC is “revisionism gone a step too far”. The Royal Irish Constabulary was one of the first organised police forces in Britain or Ireland when it was founded in 1836 following the amalgamation of four provisional forces. ‘Personal position’“This is a personal position, not a position of the office,” Mr Crowe told The Irish Times. “To participate in this sham commemoration is to support the blatant political revisionism behind it.

Source: The Irish Times January 05, 2020 19:52 UTC