Councillor addresses Cleveland City Council
Monaghan Sinn Féin Urban District Councillor Owen Smyth returned
recently from the United States where he addressed a number of
Irish-Amercian activist meetings and was formally received by the
Council of the City of Cleveland.
Councillor Smyth was witness to the passage by the City Council
of a formal Resolution that wholeheartedly endorsed the Charter
for Change (Cearta) as a democratic agenda that must be enacted
to ensure that peace, justice, and full reconciliation be
achieved in Ireland.
During his address the Monaghan councillor paid tribute to the
supportive role played by Irish America and others of good will
at all levels of the political administration in the United
States, from city councils to Capitol Hill and the White House.
He acknowledged that but for that support the cause of a just
peace in Ireland would still be confined to our island's shores,
and many more years away from realisation than today's enhanced
prospect.
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