Irish attitudes towards the war

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There have been several pieces written in the last week or so about the rightness or the wrongness of the Iraqi war from an Irish or Northern Irish view point.

The latest is Eamon Lynch’s piece asking why Gerry Adams and indeed most other Irish politicians did not use the St Patrick’s Day celebrations to make their feelings known to President Bush.

Meanwhile David Quinn has written what is probably the most openly pro American article in the National Review.

Meanwhile one of the co-founders of the Peace People movement in the 1970’s Mairead Corrigan has been been arrested outside the White House.

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