Whats the deal with irish paleolithic deniers?

Fighting leprechaun 20

l understand skepticism but they flat out deny evidence . and claim things that simply aren't true out of self inflicted ignorance .

there have been paleo finds here .

the discovery of a butchered bear bone 10,500-10,800 BC discovered by Dr Dowd in the Alice and Gwendoline cave is tantamount evidence. the cut marks made by a flint tool on the bone are contemporary with the age of the bone . it was butchered fresh . it was originally discovered in 1903 by a team of irish archaeologists along with thousands of other bones . interestingly the archaeologists did make comments on the bear bone remarking on the cuts on the bone but they had obviously no way of dating it back than .

there have been various paleo finds here ranging from 500,000 bc to 20,000 bc. however they have been said to have arrived here from the irish sea and somewhere else in Europe .

Animals of ireland dating to 50,000 bc -20,000 bc with older dates being sporadic.

hyenas .wolfs . ground sloths . bears . irish elk . woolly mammoths . woolly rhinos . reindeer . horses . Norway
lemming, lynx, mountain hare and stoat .red deer .ect .all these fossils found in caves .. The preservation of this material probably
had much to do with their location south of the limit of the last Midlandian ice-
sheet.

its worth mentioning there may have been animals present for which there is no current data at all .


the crux of the problem is erosion . (Woodman 1986; 1998).
the destructive affects wrought by the Pleistocene
glaciations would have scrapped the island clean .however Ballynamuck cave was excavated by Dr. Simon Collcutt who determined the sediments to be from
c.220,000- 125,000 bc. suggesting rare finds could indeed have survived in irish caves from the Pleistocene age. though its not like anyone has actually looked .

with britain and france being populated for some 750,000 years & a million years with ireland being attached to mainland europe for such long periods of time lt seems impossible that paleo man wasn't
here going back hundreds of thousands of years. but unlike england we dont really have such a rich untouched deposits to work from .