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Six County election shivers

The results of the election of members to the suspended Six County Assembly at Stormont have sent shivers through the ranks of Twenty-Six County politicians. Their comfortable status quo of eighty odd years is threatened.

During that time the were so immersed in their own affairs that the six counties of Ulster which make up the statelet of Northern Ireland became an amorphous entity generally referred to as "the North".

"Oh, it was terrible the goings-on there, the bombings, the murders, the church burnings, and did you see the way they treated the poor children going to school? Thanks be to God we're well out of it."

Then along came the Good Friday Agreement with its promise of peace and reconciliation. Stormont could become another Dáil Éireann, and all would be right with the world.

Unfortunately, there were people in "the North" who did not look on the Twenty-Six Counties as "the South". To them there were four cardinal points, north, south, east, and west, embracing one whole island of Ireland, one whole country, and they wanted to be included in it.

They looked forward to the day when that would happen. Their mantra, "Our day will come", repeated and repeated and repeated, became a thing of ridicule.

No longer.

In the November election they proved beyond doubt that they have majority support among nationalists.

Not only that, they form the only political party that has representation in both the northern Assembly and the southern Dáil.

They owe nothing to other political parties in the South. Their independence was hard won. That independence will guarantee their future in both the Six and Twenty-Six Counties. They are the only Thirty-Two County political party in the country.

Their day will come.

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