Mhic Géidigh: All-Ireland programmes succeed because people see benefits
Gráinne Mhic Géidigh of Sinn Féin, member of the board of Údarás na Gaeltachta, addressed the party's Ard Fhéis at the weekend on issues of a united Ireland.
Mrs. Mhic Gidigh said the era of partition was over, that partition hadn't worked in the past and would never work. Duplication of services, with two economies, two education systems two health systems and two transport systems on a small island, for example, never made sense, she said.
She pointed to all-Ireland initiatives, asking who would have believed in the past that a Unionist minister would be implementing all-Ireland health plans, or that a Sinn Fiin minister would be moving forward on a dual carriageway from Dublin to Derry. In the same way, she pointed to the all-party, cross-border Donegal County Council-led initiative to restore rail service to the north-west.
Mrs. Mhic Gidigh pointed to those as examples where she said the party was using its political powers not just for the benefit of its communities but by gradually doing away with the border by convincing Unionists that co-operation makes sense. Cross-border groups and projects succeed because people north and south see the benefits, she said.
The dars board member delivered her remarks in Irish, as follows:
A chairde, n raibh muid ariamh chomh cngarach do ire Aontaithe agus at muid anois. De rir a chile t an teorainn ag imeacht agus is de rir a chile a thgtar na caislein.
T stritis agus polasaithe ag Sinn Fin le aontacht agus neamh spleachas a bhaint amach agus is muid an t-aon phirt at ag tabhairt dearcadh sonrach phoblachtanach isteach go crolr pholaitocht na hireann.
T r na deighilte thart a chairde, nor oibir s san am a chuaigh thart, nl s ag obair anois agus n oibreoidh s go deo.
Ar oilen beag cosil le hirinn n dharna s ariamh ciall a bheith scoilte. N raibh ciall ariamh le dh choras slinte, dh eacnamaocht dhifrila, dh choras oideachais, dh choras iompair.
Is for le r go raibh droch thionchar ag seo ar r dtr uilig agus is cinnte gur fhulaing mo chontae fin, Dn na nGall, go mr d bharr.
T cur chuige pholaitiil uile-ireannach ag Sinn Fin agus t stritis againn oibri go dian dcheallach chun deireadh a chuir leis an chrochdheighilt seo at ag coineil cl ar dhul chun cinn r dtre.
C a shleadh, traidhfil blianta shin, go mbeadh Aire Aondachtach de chuid an UUP, Micheal Migimsy ag cur i bhfeidhm pleananna slinte ar bhonn uile-ireannach? Seo dreach an rud at ag tarl, le comhoibri idir na 6 chontae agus rialtas na 26 contae, t seirbhs radaiteiripe do chram ailse sa Iarthuaisceart ag danamh neamhaird den teorainn agus ag tabhairt ts ite do othair. Tchonn muid r nAire fin, Conor Murphy, ag bogadh chun tosaigh agus tr chomhoibri le rialtas an 26 contae, ag cur dbhealach idir Doire agus Baile Atha Cliath ar fil. Agus c a shamhldh i nuair a mhol Sinn Fin i gComhairle Contae Dhn na nGall cupla bliain shin go dtiocfadh polaiteoir gach pirt n d thaobh den teorainn le chile, aondachtoir an UUP agus an DUP ina measc, ars ag danamh neamhiontas den teorainn agus iad uilig ag iarraidh iarannrd don Iarthuaisceart?
A chairde, nl anseo ach 3 shampla ina bhfuil Sinn Fin ag taispeint ceannrdaocht, ag sid r gcumhacht pholaitiil sna foraim ina bhfuil muid tofa, n amhin le freastail ar r bpobail fin ach de rir a chile ag lgu an teorainn tr cur ina li ar aondachtir go ndanann s ciall.
Chomh maith le seo, t na heagraochta agus na tionscnaimh tras teorainn ag obair mar go bhfeiceann muintir na hireann, thuaidh agus theas gur as son leas na bpobail uilig go lir at siad.
Gan an deighilt seo n bheadh scoilt in r socha, in r n-eacnamaocht, agus b shibhre ibhfad a bheadh r saol cultrtha, r socha agus r bpobail.
A chairde, t dualgas ar rialtas na 26 contae freagracht a ghlacadh agus straitis a chuir i bhfeidhm chun cuspir daonlathach agus nisinta a chuir chun cinn le athaont na hireann, neamhsleachas pholaitiil agus athmhuintearas nisinta a bhaint amach.
T Sinn Fin ar ths cadhnaochta anseo agus fgaimis an trd Fheis seo agus rn daingean againn br chun tosaigh ar r bpromh chuspir ag baint sid as na hinstituid pholaitla chun seo a bhaint amach.
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