dereko1969
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I only caught the second half of the Forgotten War discussion on RTE1 last night but I couldn't help wondering why Robert Ballagh was included, even more so when he was clearly out of his depth discussing anything of detail.
I was even more surprised then to see him on TV3 straight after, is he basically the go-to anti-war person for any discussion programme on WW1?
It seemed odd in the first programme especially as he was the only non-historian there, I was a bit embarrassed for him. Could RTE not have found someone more qualified to speak on the topic or did they just want someone with an anti-historical viewpoint to say "war is bad, irish soldiers were imperialist lackeys...."
I was even more surprised then to see him on TV3 straight after, is he basically the go-to anti-war person for any discussion programme on WW1?
It seemed odd in the first programme especially as he was the only non-historian there, I was a bit embarrassed for him. Could RTE not have found someone more qualified to speak on the topic or did they just want someone with an anti-historical viewpoint to say "war is bad, irish soldiers were imperialist lackeys...."