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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