Ógra Shinn Féin Doire launched on Tuesday 27 November taking place in a packed Rath Mór Sinn Féin office. As well as the launch the new cumann also vowed to play a leading role in the 'Stand Up For Derry' campaign.
The meeting was addressed by National Organiser of Ógra Shinn Féin Barry McColgan who spoke of the importance of recruitment, education and campaigning and congratulated the assembled activists for setting up another Ógra cumann.
He spoke of other recent Ógra cumann setting up including West Belfast, Clare and Waterford.
He also spoke of the great work completed by Toirsire in the past 2 years and how this has equipped the group with the necessary skills of continuing the growth of a radical republican youth group in Derry.
Niall Doran chairperson of the new cumann said,
"Toirsire was formed in Easter 2005 after a group of local republicans got together to discuss possible ways to provide a place within Sinn Fein in Derry were young republicans could best play a part in making Republican politics relevant to local communities in Derry. To create an environment were young Republicans could develop their politics through discussion with each other and by working along with older republicans from whom they could gain experience."
"Since then Toirsire developed, both in terms of numbers and politically, and in recent months they proved this through some of the events which they organised including the weekend of events to mark the 40th anniversary of Che Guevara."
"With all that in mind we decided to undertake a procress of re-organisation, to branch out and grow in areas we have no presence. In order to build our base and grow the organisation we applied to become an Ógra Shinn Féin cumann which will now see us become part of the fastest growing, most active youth movement in the country."
"This will inevitably help us progress as we move forward now with a national youth movement behind us, we will continue to campaign, making our politics relevant to the youth of Derry!"
2 comments:
stay on your feet,stay focused on DERRY,well done to derry sinn fein for putting the youth at the forefront of this campaign,positive stuff as opposed to the negative s**** coming from the dissidents and the SDLP/UNIONIST coalition on derry city council.Well done also to toirsire for linking in with Ogra
well done toirsire for becoming an ogra and hopefully taking the initative on the stand up for derry and trying to bring republicanism back to the grass roots... and trying to make our comunity a better place!!
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