THE first shots of the Civil War were fired on 18 February 1922, when an IRA unit commanded by Ernie O’Malley seized a police station in Clonmel. The last shots were fired in April this year when Séamus Ó Néill, president of Fianna Fáil’s Comhairle Dáilcheantair for Waterford, issued a statement criticising Micheál Martin for proposing a government coalition

