Monday, August 09, 2010

Voices on Unity - Ruairi McGinley

Cllr Ruairi McGinley
Dublin City Council
Fine Gael









I believe that in the long run the people of Ireland will be best served by a politically united Ireland.
We can see from many sports including GAA , Rugby that the Irish sense of identity extends to the entire Island. We will always underperform against our potential while there is political division and it is young people left with no economic option but to emigrate North and South who will pay the price.

There is strength in diversity. We need to celebrate the Gaelic tradition alongside the traditions of those Irish people who celebrate a British heritage. Through recognising diversity as something normal rather than something to be feared we will take the biggest step along the road to ultimate unity on a basis that threatens no one but which offers the people on the island of Ireland the best prospect of properly taking our place among the nations of the Earth. The current power sharing government in Northern Ireland offers hope in this regard.

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