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"No doubt President Connolly will face many challenges as she works alongside a government with no vision and opposing priorities and policies. But this week, we celebrate her election as we keep an eye on the bigger picture." @c1aranquinn.bsky.social's latest.

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A New Republic - Friends of Sinn Féin
In a section on Irish Unity, she referenced Article 3 of the Constitution, which sets out the firm wish of the Irish nation to have a united Ireland and is committed to working to that end with the co...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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fosfusa.bsky.social
FF/FG "claim to want unity but are not prepared to plan, prepare or advocate for it. That is not leadership. That is an abdication of responsibility. Hope is not a replacement for strategy, planning or action." @c1aranquinn.bsky.social's latest
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Hope is not a strategy - Friends of Sinn Féin
This week an Dáil (the Irish Parliament) passed a Sinn Féin resolution calling on the Irish Government to establish Citizens Assemblies and a Parliamentary Committee to promote discussion on Irish Uni...
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November 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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fosfusa.bsky.social
Hundreds Gather for Irish Unity People’s Assemblies in the Northeast with Mairéad Farrell TD

Activists young and old jumped at the chance to discuss the actors and the work involved in creating a new and united Ireland and to make plans for next steps.

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Hundreds Gather for Irish Unity People's Assemblies in the Northeast with Mairéad Farrell TD - Friends of Sinn Féin
All of these events were made possible by the work of volunteer activists and supporters. The progress made and the work to be done on the horizon is clearer than ever and that is thanks to the dozens...
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November 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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fosfusa.bsky.social
Connecting past and present, Mairéad Farrell reminded us all, “Today, we remember Captain Anthony and the Fenian Prisoners. Tomorrow, we honour them by working to build a new and united Ireland.” Read @c1aranquinn.bsky.social's latest letter.

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It was the right thing to do - Friends of Sinn Féin
The rooms were full of old and new friends, drawn together by a common pride in Ireland and a shared hope for the future. In Hartford, we paid our respects to the Hunger Strikers at the magnificent Ce...
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November 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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fosfusa.bsky.social
"People's Assemblies are an opportunity for supporters of Irish Unity to feed their views back to Sinn Féin in Ireland, to learn of the pathway to unity, and to identify their role in building a new and united Ireland." @c1aranquinn.bsky.social's latest.

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Looking to the Past & Future - Friends of Sinn Féin
Common across all commission hearings is a thirst for knowledge and enthusiasm to promote unity. Each city has its own character and brings something new to the table. The Commissions are an opportuni...
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October 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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fosfusa.bsky.social
Our latest Video Update is up! Sinn Féin's Rep to North America @c1aranquinn.bsky.social & Friends of Sinn Féin's Executive Director Greg O'Loughlin @oloughness.bsky.social discuss the upcoming Irish Presidential elections, Irish Unity People's Assemblies, & more! Watch & share!
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Friends of Sinn Féin Video Update - October 2025
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October 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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fosfusa.bsky.social
"When writing, I tend to avoid clichés like the plague. Last week, I wrote about the Irish Presidential election campaign. Then, there were three candidates; now there are two. A week is a long time in politics." @c1aranquinn.bsky.social's latest

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A week is a long time in clichés - Friends of Sinn Féin
The third candidate, endorsed by Sinn Féin, Catherine Connolly, is ahead of Humphries in the polls. In a sign of the times, a video surfaced while out on the campaign trail, playing soccer and basketb...
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October 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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fosfusa.bsky.social
BOSTON! Join us Tue, Oct 28th at Florian Hall for Irish Unity People's Assembly for the Diaspora. With special guests Mairéad Farrell Sinn Féin TD for Galway West & Sinn Féin Rep to North America @c1aranquinn.bsky.social.

This is a free event and all are welcome! www.eventbrite.com/e/1592018874...
October 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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fosfusa.bsky.social
"Irish Unity and reconciliation go hand in hand. Reconciliation, addressing the past, respecting difference, and working together is required in both a divided and a united Ireland. It is an ongoing process." @c1aranquinn.bsky.social 's latest

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Rendering Reconciliation Meaningless - Friends of Sinn Féin
Speaking on Saturday at an event, Catherine Connolly reminded us that the Irish Constitution states that Irish Unity is the firm will of the Irish Nation. As President, she would advance the will of t...
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October 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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fosfusa.bsky.social
"We all need a President who will act on behalf of the whole island and nation abroad. A president who will be ambitious for Ireland. The campaign is underway, and I, for one, will be supporting @catherinegalway." @c1aranquinn.bsky.social's latest

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A President for All - Friends of Sinn Féin
In essence, the election will a choice be between the current government party candidates, Humphreys and Gavin, against a united opposition candidate, Connolly. This will be a first in recent history ...
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September 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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fosfusa.bsky.social
"To be an Irish Republican is to be anti-sectarian.

Irish Republicans know the impact of discrimination and repression." @c1aranquinn.bsky.social 's latest Letter from Ireland.

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Identity in a New and United Ireland - Friends of Sinn Féin
To be an Irish Republican is to be anti-sectarian.   Irish Republicans know the impact of discrimination and repression. Our language was banned, economic and political discrimination was rife, our sc...
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August 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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fosfusa.bsky.social
"The only obstacle to implementing the right to referendums is the opposition of the current Irish & British Govs. They are denying democracy." @c1aranquinn.bsky.social's latest Letter from Ireland

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Unity Referendums & the Good Friday Agreement - Friends of Sinn Féin
The Good Friday Agreement obliges the British Government to recognize and legislate for Irish Unity if that is the wish of the people in referendums. Some argue that the British would not honor this p...
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August 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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fosfusa.bsky.social
San Francisco! Join us & John Finucane MP for the Irish Unity People's Assembly: Diaspora: Thu, Sept 18, 7:00 - 9:30pm. United Irish Cultural Center. Free & all are welcome! Join the work being done to create a new & United Ireland!
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Irish Unity People's Assembly: Diaspora - San Francisco
Commission on the Future of Ireland People's Assembly, Diaspora
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August 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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fosfusa.bsky.social
"Today the @FeileBelfast is the largest community festival in Ireland, if not Europe, and a generation has grown up knowing the first week of August as a party and celebration." @c1aranquinn.bsky.social
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The Power of Culture - Friends of Sinn Féin
The Féile is now part of the fabric of Belfast. It was established by Gerry Adams in the very different Belfast of 1988. Following a series of attacks and killing at the time our community was describ...
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August 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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fosfusa.bsky.social
"One of the lessons of the Irish peace process is that conflicts are man-made and can be resolved.

Much has changed over the past twenty years. The future is ours to define. The work we do today can and will deliver a united Ireland." @c1aranquinn.bsky.social

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Between Past and Future - Friends of Sinn Féin
As it was twenty years ago, so it is today. We rely on the force of argument and activism to secure and win unity referendums. When we work together, we are unstoppable. Ireland, the US, Canada and su...
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July 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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fosfusa.bsky.social
“We are in the US this week for a short visit on Capitol Hill...key among the issues discussed were the holding of referenda on Irish Unity, tariffs & the potential impact on the economy & political process & the ongoing genocide in Gaza." Mary Lou McDonald
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Irish Unity, tariffs and genocide in Gaza raised during US trip – Mary Lou McDonald TD - Friends of Sinn Féin
“We are in the US this week for a short visit to meet with the Congressional Friends of Ireland group and other representatives on Capitol Hill including Representative Rashida Tlaib, the first Americ...
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July 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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fosfusa.bsky.social
From Bobby Sands Trust: Today marks the 44th anniversary of the fifth hunger striker to die, Joe McDonnell. Here is a link to a documentary by Ocean FM about Joe’s death: www.bobbysandstrust.com/anniversary-...
Anniversary of Joe McDonnell’s Death | Bobby Sands Trust
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July 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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fosfusa.bsky.social
"The drive for Irish unity knows no boundaries or borders. This week, I travelled to Canada w Rose Conway Walsh TD for Irish unity commission events in Toronto & Ottawa. These were part of a series of events across Ireland & the globe." @c1aranquinn.bsky.social

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A time when Hope and Opportunity rhyme - Friends of Sinn Féin
The drive for Irish unity knows no boundaries or borders. This week, I travelled to Canada with Rose Conway Walsh for Irish unity commission events in Toronto and Ottawa. These were part of a series o...
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July 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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fosfusa.bsky.social
"Platitudes could be paid to Irish citizens in the North, but God (or rather De Valera) forbid they'd ever be given voice in the life of the nation. We were a reminder of a nation divided by Britain & of Irish govs that couldn't provide" @c1aranquinn.bsky.social friendsofsinnfein.com/voting-right...
Voting Rights for Citizens - Friends of Sinn Féin
Earlier this year, Sinn Féin brought a motion to the Stormont Assembly (the parliament in the North of Ireland) to support the extension of voting rights in the Irish Presidential election to Irish Ci...
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June 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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fosfusa.bsky.social
"Fianna Fáil & Fine Gael have stood dogmatically to a position: the market will fix the housing problem. The market is working for landlords & developers who control supply. It is not working for the people, economy or public services." @c1aranquinn.bsky.social
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Raise the roof - Friends of Sinn Féin
There is a growing crisis in public services as teachers, nurses, doctors, and the police can no longer afford rent. This is also playing out in the private sector where rent increases outstrip wages ...
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June 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Ireland is second most expensive country in Europe, data shows
Ireland is second most expensive country in Europe, data shows
Prices here are much higher than the European average
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June 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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fosfusa.bsky.social
"I hope that you can come along & meet with Pat Cullen MP in Nashville, Cincinnati or Chicago. To hear of political developments in Ireland & discuss the way forward.

"Together, we can all build a new & united Ireland."
@c1aranquinn.bsky.social's latest.
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In the Steps of Connolly - Friends of Sinn Féin
I am particularly delighted that we will be joined at these commissions by the recently elected Member of Parliament for Fermanagh South Tyrone, Pat Cullen. Pat is a nurse by profession and went on to...
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May 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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"We are at a time when no one should lose their lives or liberty. We now have a peaceful path to Irish unity. That is their greatest gift & one that has yet to be realized." Sinn Féin Rep to North America @c1aranquinn.bsky.social reflects on Easter in Ireland.

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Easter in Ireland - Friends of Sinn Féin
As I walked through the graveyard I was humbled by the quiet dignity of families carrying the portraits of loved ones lost in the conflict. Their young faces frozen in time while their contemporaries,...
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April 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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fosfusa.bsky.social
"Irish unity is no longer an aspiration or distant concept. We have a pathway, we now need a unity of purpose shared by all who believe in constitutional change in Ireland & abroad." Letter from Ireland, Sinn Féin Rep to North America @c1aranquinn.bsky.social

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Easter: A time to remember and to recommit to building a new and united Ireland - Friends of Sinn Féin
Easter is the time when we remember Ireland's Patriots. Those who have struggled, and those who gave their lives for the cause of Irish freedom. Marking the 1916 Rising and also the advent of Spring a...
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April 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Government & Opposition

@c1aranquinn.bsky.social offers a primer on an inside-baseball issue in the Dáil Éireann that will have ramifications in the days to come. A gov established by grubby deals, enforced by their majority is not a good omen for the future.
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Government and Opposition - Friends of Sinn Féin
We are living at a time in which political precedents are being swept away. What was once thought to be unacceptable is now celebrated. In the Dáil (Irish Parliament), a row has been growing since Fia...
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April 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM