Carlow Punks!
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The "men of 1916" thing is really just a metaphor isn't it? Like it's supposed to represent the plenty of honest people in Ireland who fought for Ireland in a similar way: like all the people who worked their arses off in the last 20 years, many of them abroad, living in slum-like conditions in Germany, the UK etc, who suffered many indignities, but who did bring the knowledge, money and experience back to Ireland because it's their home,
what about all the people who lived in slum conditions in Germany (Berlin) in the early nineties, who maybe didn't work their arses off but who did bring the knowledge and experience back to Ireland of how cool a capital city could be...because it's their home
unsung heroes of the early noughties