Posted by seumasach on January 22, 2017
22nd January, 2017
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams TD speaking in Dublin today said:
“The Irish government doesn’t have a strategy or a plan to deal with the dire consequences of Brexit for all the people of the island of Ireland. Sinn Féin has argued for an all-island vision. This view is strengthened by the vote in the North, which is to stay within the EU.
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Posted by seumasach on August 3, 2016
Why the DUP needs to stop gloating about Brexit and put people before party for once
3rd August, 2016
The border was, in a sense, put to bed with the Good Friday Agreement. The constitutional question that had dogged our history and was central to the Troubles was neutralised in so far as all parties to the Agreement accepted the consent principle and that any change to the constitutional status quo could only come about by the consent of the majority of the electorate in Northern Ireland by way of a referendum agreeing to a united Ireland.
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