Ireland is in no position to lecture other countries on morality given its neutrality during the second World War, Russian ambassador to Ireland Yury Filatov has said. In a message to mark International Holocaust Memorial Day, he also claimed that then taoiseach Éamon de Valera wished Adolf Hitler a happy birthday in April 1945 when “Soviet and Allied soldiers were still dying in the battle against Nazis”. There is no historical record of Mr de Valera wishing Hitler a happy birthday, though there was international criticism of his decision to express his condolences to the German ambassador to Ireland after...