In truth, however, this is far from a new idea on their part. It has been built towards across recent years by resident hacks of the new Sinn Féin in the northern media, from Chris Donnelly to Jarlath Kearney to Jim Gibney (to name but a few).
You would almost think that they’re working as one towards an agenda, that seeks to ensure that a dis-united United Ireland is all that Irish Unity should amount to. The Republican notion that all Irish people can live together as one citizenry — regardless of divisions contrived to divide a minority from the majority in the past — sadly seems lost on them all, in their headlong rush to do the bidding of Britain and advance her strategic imperatives in Ireland, whether wittingly or otherwise.
Surely the Irish people deserve better than to be further divided as this going forward. For people as myself, from County Tyrone, having waited for so long for the chance to be part of our own country, we want nothing less than our rightful place within the body of the nation. ‘Lest they forget’, we too are from Ireland. Why, then, must we be denied our full place in any future United Ireland? Does Our identity and Our aspirations really count for so little? It sadly seems so.
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Sean Bresnahan is an independent Republican from Co. Tyrone who blogs @ Claidheamh Soluis. Follow Sean Bresnahan on Twitter @bres79 |
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