I’ll be marching for a new republic and I hope you’ll be in step with me

DEAR David and Jack, I hope you don’t mind if I take the liberty of writing you an open letter.

In your roles as general secretary and president of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions you’ve called for a major march and protest on Saturday, November 27 – that’s the weekend after next. According to the SIPTU website, the plan is that the march will assemble at noon on the day, at the Civic Offices on Wood Quay in Dublin and march to the GPO on O’Connell Street.

The first thing I want to say about the march is: count me in. I’m only one citizen, but I’m hoping that on that particular day I’ll be one of a million citizens marching to make our voices heard.