I think you're bing too harsh there Block G. Armies just do what their political/military masters tell them to do. That was the case in 1921/2, and it's the case now.
Fianna Fail was the political movement that was created to carry on the fight of the non-treaty side of the Civil War, so I see no irony at all in that party laying a wreath in their memory. Even if FG laid a wreath now, I would only find that mildly ironic. Should the Spanish army not be involved in anything that commemorates Spain's monarchy, just because of how they were used under Franco ? Ditto the Italian army and Mussolini. Should the German army be prevented from doing anything that honours freedom and democracy, given how they were used under Hitler ?
Time's change - not everyone needs to be a hostage of the past....
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