New Year’s Greetings from Gerry McGeough

Posted by Jim on December 31, 2014

 

A chairde,

 

Here’s wishing you all a very Happy and Prosperous New Year! The past year, 2014, was of course the one during which the British were supposed to have left Ireland. At least that was the on record promise made some time ago by a leading Sinn Féin figure. Oh well, ho-hum!

Now we must bide our time until 2016 when an even more prominent Sinn Féin figure has publicly promised a British withdrawal from the Six Counties. While one is prepared to give the benefit of the doubt in all instances, it’s probably true to say that very few people seriously

believe that the British State will begin to vacate its forces from Ireland in about twelve months from now. The real wonder is that supposedly astute politicians would tie themselves to such definite dates in the first place. Sooner or later all those who have placed their faith in these

individuals will be disappointed by them. Sinn Féin leaders come and go of course, albeit at a glacial pace, and the fate of the Irish Nation is far more important than the ambitions of individual egotists. It is to be hoped that 2015 will mark the beginning of a serious debate that will

end the cult of leadership and the curse of factionalism within the wider Irish Republican family. The cause of Irish freedom remains a noble one and Irish Republicans are a formidable people, forged in the fiery tradition of true Patriotism. Unity is strength. Let’s work towards it in 2015.

 

Éirinn go Brach!

Gerry McGeough