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I maintain that his party has debased it by creating a two-tier Ireland of haves and have-nots.
Surely the main tenet of republicanism is equality, or at least the pursuit of it. We’re some way off given that half of the people who live in Dublin cannot even afford a dwelling.
And deporting five-year-olds at 6am or curtailing citizenship rights was not exactly what Marat, Paine or Connolly had in mind.
Ireland belongs not only to the wealthy but also, to paraphrase Tone, to “that respectable section of the community, the men of no property”.
Gordon Kennedy,
55, Brian Road,
Marino,
Dublin 3
