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Republic Day - April 24th, 12 noon.

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Thursday April 22, 2010 10:50

by Tom Rascal

Re-proclaim the Republic

Join with other citizens at the GPO to establish the anniversary of the 1916 Revolution and the Proclamation of the Irish Republic as 'Republic Day' from this year forward.

We are free citizens of an independent republic conceived by both the issuing of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic and the revolution of 1916. The anniversary of those events, April 24th, has consistently been sidelined by the Irish State which has abjectly failed to complete the task of building the progressive, modern republic that was promised in the Proclamation. The evidence of this failure lies all around us - one of the most unequal societies in Europe, a shambles of a health system, an education system handed over to the control of religious organisations, the systematic cover up by church and state of rampant child abuse, business and political corruption and collusion on a huge scale at massive cost to ordinary citizens, the handing over of national assets to private multi-national corporations, divisions carefully fostered first between religious denominations and lately between public and private workers, and on, and on.

The French have Bastille Day, the British have Armistice Day, the US has Independence Day. The Irish State has consistently avoided designating the anniversary of the 1916 Revolution and the issuing of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic as a day of rememberance, understanding and celebration of the momentous event... and the heroic people involved in that strike for freedom.

It is time for citizens to reclaim the Republic and to reinvest it with the spirit of paragraph four of the Proclamation. At noon on Saturday April 24th citizens are asked to gather at the GPO to inaugurate Republic Day.

This event is initiated by ordinary citizens, independent of any political party or organisation.

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