Go raibh míle maith agaibh!
Thanks to the 16,310 voters who placed their faith in me - I’ll not let you down. It’s time to have a government committed to delivering a better, fairer, United Ireland!
#GE2020
My intervention on behalf of over 2million EU voters who are denied their voice in European Parliament. 3 Catalan MEPs have been refused access to EP - this undermines the democratic process & cannot be tolerated by those who value human rights in the EU.
#Catalonia
#Strasbourg
🇵🇸 Ireland’s opposition parties are united in demanding that the Irish government join South Africa’s referral of Israel to the ICJ under the Genocide Convention.
Proud to represent Sinn Féin at
@ipsc48
press conference on this issue. 🇮🇪
So, I was wondering why the battery on my laptop was running down every time I left it at home.
Turns out the kids have been using my election leaflets to get through the facial recognition lock...
I’m not sure whether to be proud by the wit or concerned by the sneakiness?
He was previously prevented from entering European Parliament for dubious reasons - but today we had a small victory as we welcome
@KRLS
exiled Catalan president Carles Puigdemont to parliament as our guest ✊
One Minister feels unwell = entire cabinet self-isolating & Dáil adjourned for a week.
Workers at meat plant test positive for
#Covid19
= business as usual & tests cancelled.
Welcome to the contradictions of FF/FG in government.
Petrol is almost €2 a litre. Home heating oil has gone up from an average of €550 to €700 in a matter of days. People are crying out for help. Just how bad will this crisis have to get before this government takes action?
This evening in EP Strasbourg
@EP_President
made a call for respect for freedom & human dignity. I thought it appropriate to ask when he would speak for these principles regarding
#Catalonia
His refusal to respond was disappointing but not surprising
#HumanRightsDay
#Hypocrisy
One of the largest demonstrations of International solidarity that Ireland has ever seen
#Palestine
🇵🇸
I was proud to deliver the message from Sinn Féin & the Irish people
#CeasefireNow
One of my proudest moments in politics when I had the honour of introducing the Palestinian Ambassador to Ireland to the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis today.
🇮🇪 In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestians 🇵🇸
If these scenes were being broadcast from South America or Middle-East the rhetoric from EU leaders would be immense. The fact that is happening within EU borders makes their silence absolutely untenable. It is time to be counted, it’s time to stand against this tyranny!
It’s almost two years since the Catalan people voted for independence. The reaction of the Spanish government has been violent & oppressive while the EU has remained silent. I was proud to stand today with
@KRLS
& Catalonia in defense of
#democracy
#HumanRights
&
#RuleOfLaw
This is not an ‘internal’ matter for the Spanish state. This is a fundamental betrayal of human rights and democracy. World leaders cannot remain silent. All need to speak out against this injustice!
#Catalonia
#BREAKING
9 Catalan pro-independence leaders convicted to prison over 2017 referendum case charged with sedition and misuse of public funds with prison sentences ranging from 9 to 13 years
This week I was honoured to join Catalan community in Belgium to welcome 200 Mayors from Catalonia & the Presdient of the Catalan people, Carles Puigdemont in Brussels.
I stand on the side of peace, democracy & human rights.
I stand with Catalonia.
🇵🇸🇮🇪 It is pointless to say that Israel must abide by international law when it is blatantly breaking that law every minute of every day.
The EU must change course. Ireland must lead the way.
My call to the Irish government ahead of this weeks European Council meeting:
Catalan Political Prisoners must be released & the EU must support this demand. My message after meeting Catalan reps who face up to 25 years in jail because they allowed citizens to vote.
As Irish Republicans prepare to remember those who declared Irish
independence in Easter 1916 we send solidarity to our friends in
#Catalonia
who face massive repression from the Spanish state. The EU
needs to wake up.
This is a refugee camp.
Israel has bombed a refugee camp in Gaza!
This is not self-defence, this is a war crime!
Hundreds of innocents killed and injured.
Silence and complicity no-more. Israel must be held accountable.
#CeasefireNow
!
While EU leaders are at UN preaching democracy we're outside their headquarters reminding them that in Europe elected representatives are imprisoned for allowing people to vote!
The hypocrisy must end. Release political prisoners & allow Catalan people to decide their own future!
MEPs have rejected a request to allow a debate on situation in
#Catalonia
. This wasn’t a resolution taking sides, just a proposal for a political discussion. In rejecting it, the EP has undermined its authority to comment on human rights issues elsewhere in the world.
#Shame
Really proud to meet
@KRLS
on the day Spanish government drop arrest warrant against him. Continued solidarity to the people of
#Catalonia
& their elected representatives!
When a state denies elected representatives access to prisoners it should be cause for concern.
When that state is in the EU and the reps concerned are members of European Parliament it should be cause for outrage from other EU leaders.
The silence on
#Catalonia
must end!
A group of MEPs has been refused entry to Estremera prison in Spain where 2 Catalan political prisoners are held. We’ve been trying to get authorisation for over a month. Visiting prisoners here is a hard task for MEPs while elsewhere in the EU it’s much easier
@Europarl_EN
Just visited
@ForcadellCarme
in Centre Mas d’Enric prison. She was president of Catalan Parliament and is imprisoned awaiting show trial that could lead to 25year sentence for the audacious crime of respecting the mandate of her MPs. EU cannot accept this injustice!
Crazy!
AIB, a bank that was bailed out by Irish taxpayers to the tune of €3.5BILLION, have announced that they are removing cash services from 70 branches (including Carrickmacross & Castleblayney in Co Monaghan). 1/2
So, arrived in Barcelona for my first visit to Catalonia. Unfortunately it’s short and will be spent meeting political prisoners whose crimes amount to allowing citizens to vote. Amazing that more attention is not focused on Spanish authorities responsible for this injustice.
Don’t ever let anyone convince us that change isn’t possible - it’s happening in front of our eyes.
Today we take a giant step on the road to a better, fairer, united Ireland.
Maith thú
@moneillsf
"The first genocide where victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real time in the desperate, so far vain hope that the world might do something."
So proud of Ireland’s Blinne Ní Ghralaigh who presented the South African ICJ case against Israel.
The civil servant heading the department responsible for the Mandatory Hotel fiasco is Robert Watt.
He’s in line for a €81,000 pay rise from government.
Bobby Sands died on this day in 1981.
He remains an inspiration to millions across the world. Long live the memory of the Irish Hunger Strikers!
#BobbySands
The scenes from Al-Asqa mosque in Jerusalem are grotesque in the extreme.
The brutality of Israeli apartheid has been exposed to the world once again. This time the world must take notice and demand an end to the oppression of the Palestinian people.
Shameful stuff!
Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael & Green TDs ABSTAIN on Sinn Féin motion demanding end to Coillte’s Joint Venture with British investment fund.
For all their bluff and bluster government will allow the land-grab to proceed - with clear intention that others will follow.
This isn’t like any other campaign. This is about defending the right to vote! I’m proud to stand with MEPs from across EU in support of democracy, peace & human rights.
Free Catalan Political Prisoners Now!
On this day 1974 British agents detonated bombs in Monaghan & Dublin, killing 34 innocents. Survivors and families of victims have campaigned for truth and justice ever since.
Today I was proud to join them at a commemorative ceremony at Talbot Street, Dublin. The truth will out!
The decision of Spanish authorities to issue a European arrest warrant for Carles Puigdemont was scandalous but the move by Germany to pursue it is crazy.
The credibility of the EU is now at stake- the self determination of a people can never be declared an illegal act
@JunckerEU
Horrendous, heart-wrenching news coming from Clones this evening.
A moment of joy and celebration for these young people has turned into a lifetime of devastation for those who loved them.
God help the families affected. The prayers of everyone in County Monaghan is with them.
It’s mind boggling that there wasn’t a single reference to Food Processing Plants in the government
#COVID
statements. Lots of families, communities & businesses now facing additional challenges when the one clearly known cause of outbreaks carry on without any new restrictions.
We need ceasefires, an end to occupation, a lasting peace and a free Palestine. 🇵🇸
My speech calling for international action and for Ireland to lead the way.
If the outrage at the killing of an innocent Israeli child is not matched by equal outrage at the killing of an innocent Palestinian child - then international law becomes meaningless.
🇵🇸 It’s time for the world to tell Israel to stop!
I’m proud that Ireland did the right thing by voting for UN resolution calling for
#CeasefireNOW
- it is the clear position of the majority of humanity.
There is only one route to peace.
The slaughter in Gaza must end. The siege must end. The occupation must end!
The European Parliment is often described as the only democratic EU institution.
What will it say about it’s democratic status if it is courts - rather than the peoole - who decide who can run for election?
#Catalonia
#Puigdemont
After all the bluster from FF & FG backbenchers; tonight they voted:
- against SF proposal to reduce fill of heating oil by €118
- against reductions in diesel, petrol & agri-fuel
- in favour of turf ban
- to increase home heating oil on Sunday.
Election can’t come soon enough!
Micheál Martin has just announced a fundamental shift in Irish Foreign Policy stating he will abolish the Triple-lock which underpins our neutrality.
Removing UN mandate for engagement in military missions will undermine the neutrality that Irish people overwhelmingly value.
If you want to oppose government policy get politically active. If you don’t like a politician vote against them.
The best arguments always win in the end. Throwing liquids at elected reps serves nobody & actually undermines opposition to government failures.
#MyTuppence
This is gutting.
Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael & the Green Party (and Independents) vote AGAINST referral of Israel to the International Criminal Court. Shameful!
Regardless of this vote, the Irish people stand with Palestine & International Law!
It is beyond maddening that, in the midst of a cost-of-living emergency, government have today increased the cost of home heating oil & other fuels through a carbon tax hike.
This is not climate action - it’s just making peoples lives harder. The definition of out-of-touch.
As former MEP I am shocked by actions of
@vonderleyen
Her refusal to demand adherence to international law and her endorsement of Israel’s crimes run contrary, in my view, to position of vast majority of Europeans.
Irish government must challenge this unacceptable behaviour.
We are friends of Israel.
When friends are under attack, we stand by them.
Israel has the right and duty to respond to Hamas’ act of war.
We call for the immediate release of all hostages taken by Hamas.
@Isaac_Herzog
@EP_President
New session of the European Parliament starts today. Our team may be weaker but the Irish republican message will be as strong as ever.
#FightingForIreland
#Strasbourg
My opening address to debate on Sinn Féin motion calling on Ireland to refer Israel to the International Criminal Court.
Citing Doctors from Gaza and the new horrendous acyronym to emerge in recent times: WCNSF - Wounded Child, No Surviving Family.
So Fine Gael have gone full Trump - spending money on social media ads riddled with lies.
Says a lot about a party in government for a decade when all they can offer is attacks on the opposition.
#Desperation
25 years ago today Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin was elected as the first Sinn Féin TD to take their seat in Leinster House marking a crucial milestone in the growth of our party.
He has some legacy!
The ongoing actions of the Spanish authorities re Catalonia are counterproductive and damaging.
The ongoing silence of other EU governments is scandalous.
We can not stand by while elected representatives of peaceful citizens remain imprisoned.
Release them now!
@marianorajoy
Dear friends from
@EUparliament
, yesterday
@raulromeva
(former Green MEP 2004-14) was imprisoned by the Spanish justice.
Probably he will spend there the next 20 years. Don't be silent. Fight for his rights. If we don't stop Spain's authoritarian derive, anyone could be next.
Ursula von der Leyen’s intervention on Israel’s onslught in Gaza went beyond her remit, undermined Europe’s ability to advocate for international law & contravened EU rules on subsidiarity.
The Irish government must make it clear that they will not support her re-appointment.
Government won’t reduce tax on essentials without EU approval but Taoiseach claims we can be forced to join a military alliance, at huge costs to taxpayers and Ireland’s international reputation, without recourse to the people 🤷♂️🤯
Brilliant! Australian Labor Party adopt resolution supporting a referendum on Irish Unity.
Just as international support was crucial for the success of the peace process - so too will be assist the success of a
#UnitedIreland
Regardless of your colour, gender or income; if you want a better, fairer & United Ireland then you’re welcome in Sinn Féin. Join here:
#IrelandOfEquals
Eamon Ryan came into the Dáil for statements on Transport. He spoke for 20 minutes but failed to even mention the scandalous scenes at Dublin Airport in recent days!
The man is completely out of his depth; rightly challenged by
@orourke_darren
Ireland has 32 counties.
Many people haven’t been to them all but each of them together is what makes ours a great nation 🇮🇪
This partitionist, insulting FG nonsense serves nobody.
Taoiseach Simon Harris has said people of his 'generation' are 'more familiar' with Berlin and Paris than they are with Belfast or Derry in the North.
Harris made the comments as he addressed the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly. Read more:
Sinn Féin Finance spokesperson
@PearseDoherty
has called out the insurance industry for magnifying the scale of the issue of fraudulent claims in order to justify their high premiums and increases.
Tomorrow I hope to follow in Caoimhghín’s footsteps and be one of 2 new SF TDs for Cavan Monaghan. It’s some legacy for him, for us, for all those who have been the backbone of Sinn Féin in this constituency for so long.
#ThankYouCaoimhghin
#UnitedIreland
In the 1997 general election Sinn Féin secured 2.5% of the vote and elected our only TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin this picture shows me and Matt Carthy celebrating this victory in Monaghan Town. It’s been an extraordinary journey since. Upwards and onwards.
If I was in Fine Gael I wouldn’t be reminding young people about the concept of home ownership.
It’s a concept they’ve robbed from almost an entire generation.
#BuildHouses
This new
#UnitedIreland
campaign video, narrated by
@johnconnors1990
is class. It's time to build a new, democratic, inclusive and United Ireland! Join in!
The Sinn Féin motion calling on Ireland to join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel will come before the Dáil on Tuesday & Wednesday.
This is our chance to take meaningful action in support of the Palestinian people - all TDs should back this vote.