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The Famine? Let Them Eat Smoked Salmon!

category national | history and heritage | other press author Friday May 04, 2007 13:33author by Dorothy Gale Report this post to the editors

The Government has decided to commemorate the Famine!

With what?

A State Reception in Iveagh House!

How appropriate for this Government to mark the anniversary of the Great Irish Famine by a Reception in Iveagh House. Let them eat, drink and be merry for today we let others die.

Would it not be more suitable to mark the Famine by a grant of aid to other famine-stricken lands? This Government has never been able to reach the Foreign Aid targets it set itself.

Campaigners have won a four-year battle to force the Government to officially recognise its annual event to commemorate the Famine.

The Cabinet has declined invites since 2003 to a procession in Dublin to mark the 19th-century disaster that decimated the Irish population through deaths and emigration.

However, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has finally agreed to give State support to the May 27th event by holding a State reception afterwards in Iveagh House.

Related Link: http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0504/breaking31.htm

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   ocras?     Duine    Fri May 04, 2007 16:31 
   strange way to commemorate     RogerC    Fri May 04, 2007 16:57 
   The most successful big lie in all history     You and Me    Fri May 04, 2007 19:19 
   Good!!!! lets sue the British Govt.     A10    Fri May 04, 2007 22:31 
   Let's not muddy the waters.     Me and you    Sat May 05, 2007 01:49 
   Er sorry no     A10    Sun May 06, 2007 14:07 
   half true and half wrong A10     dejavu    Sun May 06, 2007 20:15 
   Since when     A10    Mon May 07, 2007 13:17 
   National Famine Monument??     Cael    Wed Sep 05, 2007 15:22 
 10   Not Croke Patrick...     Croagh Patrick    Wed Sep 05, 2007 15:35 
 11   Location     Cael    Wed Sep 05, 2007 15:51 
 12   its not that remote     art stuff    Wed Sep 05, 2007 16:21 


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