What Does the Poppy Mean to You?
On 17th May 1974, loyalists planted a series of bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, killing 33 civilians and injuring nearly 300 others.
The attacks, which occurred during rush hour, were widely held to have been organised by British state agencies colluding with unionist death squads.
It was the single biggest event within a series of others, where those same agencies indiscriminately murdered and individually targeted persons of interest, passing intelligence to those same unionist death squads, and signing the death warrants of a swathe of Irish citizens including solicitors Pat Finucane and Rosemary Nelson.
To the families of many of those maimed and murdered by the British state, the poppy can mean only one thing; collusion.
