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<\/a> Councillor Miche\u00e1l Choilm Mac Giolla Easbuig<\/p>\n\u201cTo date, no credible alternative route for achieving the objective has been articulated.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are entitled to ask what Irish unity would mean for healthcare, housing, education, employment, taxation, pensions, public services and cultural identity. Those questions require detailed planning, inclusive discussion and honest engagement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is why Sinn F\u00e9in brought this legislation before the D\u00e1il. It sought to move Irish unity beyond aspiration and require the Government to begin the practical work now, rather than waiting until a referendum has already been called.”<\/p>\n
He went on to say that there is always room for debate among republicans about strategy and tactics.<\/p>\n
He added “Sinn F\u00e9in, like any political party, can be criticised. But criticism carries little weight when it is not accompanied by a serious and achievable alternative.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s strategy of building democratic support, advancing legislation and creating momentum for constitutional change represents the most credible route to Irish unity.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyone who believes they have a better strategy should set it out clearly and explain how it will command majority support and bring an end to partition. Until then, attacking those undertaking the hard political work amounts to little more than shouting from the sidelines.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier, Councillor Mac Giolla Easbuig claimed everyone is talking about a ‘United Ireland ‘…. except the Unionists, Loyalists and the English, of course.<\/p>\n
He added “Sinn Fein are becoming very vocal now about, a plan at least, for this ‘United Ireland’. They are trying to appear to be attacking M\u00edche\u00e1l Martin in the D\u00e1il about it; in the form of P\u00e1draig McLoughlin, sounding all historic and theatrical. Michelle O’Neill is even talking about it now, too.<\/p>\n
“There’s a North\/South push by Sinn Fein to get something moving….anything…anything at all will do !!<\/p>\n
“What waffle they speak; and dangerous, misleading waffle at that.<\/p>\n
“Sinn Fein still thinks that the ‘politics of waffle’ and grandstanding will fool all of the people all of the time. It won’t; and as Socialist Republicans we should continue to point out that ‘the emperor has no clothes’.<\/p>\n
“The Sinn Fein ‘Project Stormont’ and ‘Project Pacification’, carefully fostered by English Imperialism, has ran into the sand, for Sinn Fein. After thirty years they are now seen for what they have always been, a puppet of imperialism and capitalism. Sinn Fein are desperate to get into any ‘political lifeboat ‘ they can find.<\/p>\n
“Mary Lou is also suffering from memory loss ! What’s new? She forgets about the 850 years of English occupation and colonialism in Ireland. She forgets about the genocidal famine of the 1840’s. She forgets about the Unionist rule and English atrocities in the, still occupied, six counties.<\/p>\n
“Her approach and that of Sinn Fein is, ignore all of that but look over here at this ‘nice new shiny thing’…an undefined “United Ireland”…packaged and delivered by the powerful and wealthy ruling elites. It’s the “cure” for all our economic and political ills, they will tell you.<\/p>\n
“Mary, Michelle and P\u00e1draig, stop ‘play acting’. You know, we know and anyone with any political ‘cop on’ knows that the United Ireland you speak loudly of, is a United Ireland within imperialist and capitalist rules. You will abide by the demands and dictates of English, EU and Yankee imperialism. In other words you will do as you’re told.<\/p>\n
“It will be ‘top down’ power. It will not be a sovereign, liberated or people powered democratic Ireland. Inequality and exploitation, the basis of poverty, will prevail. The majority, the working class, the poor and working poor will still be second class citizens; if they are lucky.<\/p>\n
“You have and will continue to oppose a thirty two county Socialist Republic. You have and will forget about the sacrifice of IRA volunteers and their families, who fought, died and spent lifetimes as political prisoners, for that Socialist Republic. We, on the other hand, have not forgotten what we stand for, nor will we.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former republican prisoner Hughie Doherty has accused Donegal County Councillor Miche\u00e1l Choilm Mac Giolla Easbuig of “shouting from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-541668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}