Your letters: Government must answer war cry

I BELIEVE it's a positive step that the Irish soldiers who died during WW1 are about to be remembered by having their names inscribed on a granite remembrance wall in Flanders.

For too long successive Irish governments have ignored pleas to mark these forgotten soldiers' sacrifices, because they fought for the British Army.

My own grand uncle, John O'Donoghue, RIP, fell at Flanders.

He, along with thousands of other idealistic young Irish men, enlisted to fight what they believed to be the evil of German imperialism.

In view of the peace process and in the spirit of reconciliation, it's now time that these troops were officially remembered.

The younger generation deserves to be given the chance to acknowledge the fate that befell these Irish troops, most of whom died in appalling conditions in the so-called "war to end all wars".

B Saunders, Limerick

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