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All-Ireland trophies are hijacked to endorse partition

category national | miscellaneous | press release author Tuesday January 13, 2009 23:14author by Des Dalton - Republican Sinn Feinauthor email saoirse at iol dot ieauthor address 223 Parnell St, Dublin 1author phone 018729747

Statement by Republican Sinn Féin Vice President Des Dalton

The decision of the Tyrone Co Board to accept an invitation to bring the ‘Sam Maguire’ All-Ireland senior football trophy along with the minor All-Ireland football trophy the ‘Tommy Markham’cup to Stormont on February 6 was described by the Vice President of Republican Sinn Féin Des Dalton as “hijacking two symbols of the essential unity of the Irish nation”. Des Dalton is himself a member of the GAA.

“The decision of the Tyrone Co Board to bring the ‘Sam Maguire’ and ‘Tommy Markham’ cups to Stormont is a shameful act. Doing so is to hijack two symbols of the essential unity of the Irish nation in order to lend credibility to a prop of the partition of Ireland.” Des Dalton said

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part of the strategy
author by ex playerpublication date Thu Jan 15, 2009 07:32author address author phone

Surely a visit by Sam(?) to Stormont is just part of the long march thru the institutions.

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