Friday, November 20, 2009

Cúige Organiser's Address - Connaught

Mairéad Farrell
Connacht Organiser
Ógra Shinn Féin

A chairde,

I took over as Connacht organiser in July of this year, and began building from a very low base.


We initially focused on building both Galway and Sligo.

Galway has three cumainn at the moment. NUIG’s cumann has grown in number with over 200 students signing up to join, the highest in the 26 counties. A few dedicated activists came from their number. GMIT’s cumann has been re-established this year after a few years of it being inactive. We also have a new cumann being developed in the city.

Sligo IT is a well established cumann and they are continuing with their hard work. This dedication can also be seen in the city’s working group.

Mayo’s comhairle ceantair re-affirmed its support to establishing Ógra in that county this week and we will be travelling to Mayo over the next few weeks.

We will begin to focus on the other two counties in the New Year. I believe that Leitrim will not be too difficult to organise, and there are also propects for Roscommon.

I would like to thank Barry for all the support he gave us over the last few months and I am sure that Donnchadh will give us the same level of support.

I hope that nest year Connacht’s report will be full of success stories.

Go raibh mile maith agaibh!

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