Jewel in the Deenihan Crown!

(Picket outside office of Jimmy Deenihan in Listowel)

This is the bog that Minister Jimmy Deenihan continues to try and spin as being the ‘Jewel in the Crown’ of the relocation bogs. The reality is people don’t wish to relocate, they wish to continue cutting their turf on private land. Later this month two men will appear in court in Listowel.

Turf has been cut in the ‘model bog’. The owners of the bog have maintained their right to cut turf.  Jimmy Deenihan, Paul Connaughton Jr, and Ciaran Cannon are running back to Europe with their tails between their legs.

The people of South-East Galway have shown they won’t be bullied at the behest of the EU. Same for the folk in Kerry and across the country as demonstrated by the various turf-cutting banners on display yesterday in Galway.

What was very noticeable yesterday was the absence of politicians from the establishment parties, the old gang politics, who have sold the Irish out. It needs to be replaced by a community politics, a decentralised politics of looking beyond left versus right, looking at what is right, and opposing what is wrong. The people in their community uphold what is best for their community. A real sense of social justice and freedom. A community rooted in the family and traditional values and ways.

 

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