Cork Ógra hit the streets on wednesday, St Patricks day, to kick start the local efforts in the national campaign.A number of activists gave out hundreds of leaflets as well as promoting the easter lily in the middle of Cork City ahead of the parade.
At the same time, Ógra activist Joe Lynch was targeting the Balincollig parade, and a number of Ógra activists along with members of the Youghal Republican Flute band leafleted the parade in Youghal, East Cork. The leaflets attracted significant attention and hopefully sparked a degree of debate on the issue.
Ógra activist Niamh Kerins had this to say 'St Patricks day is a day when we are all proud to be Irish and celebrate what that means. But many people can sometimes disregard the fact that we have partition and that part of our country remains occupied, and its our job to challenge that. We got a great reaction today, as did our comrades in Ballincollig and Youghal, and people were interested in the arguments we were making for unity.
This is only a starting point though, and we must go on from here to really engage with people and popularise republicanism, and challenge attitudes.'
At the same time, Ógra activist Joe Lynch was targeting the Balincollig parade, and a number of Ógra activists along with members of the Youghal Republican Flute band leafleted the parade in Youghal, East Cork. The leaflets attracted significant attention and hopefully sparked a degree of debate on the issue.
Ógra activist Niamh Kerins had this to say 'St Patricks day is a day when we are all proud to be Irish and celebrate what that means. But many people can sometimes disregard the fact that we have partition and that part of our country remains occupied, and its our job to challenge that. We got a great reaction today, as did our comrades in Ballincollig and Youghal, and people were interested in the arguments we were making for unity.
This is only a starting point though, and we must go on from here to really engage with people and popularise republicanism, and challenge attitudes.'
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