The 100th anniversary of the founding of the Irish Free State came and went amid calls for December 6 to become a national holiday.
There was no official State ceremony to mark the occasion, which was maybe just as well as a good proportion of our population might be inclined to think that there was little to celebrate.
The parents of children who were sleeping in cars outside Our Lady of Lourdes hospital in Drogheda because there was no room in the overflowing paediatric A&E department would not be in the mood to mark the occasion.
