The Ireland Institute played host to a packed audience on Thursday 28 February for the launch of Daithi Doolan's campaign to win a seat in Leinster House for Sinn Féin in Dublin South East. The meeting was chaired by Frances McCole, the party's candidate in Dublin North Central and the guest speaker was Francie Molloy, Sinn Fein Assembly member for Dungannon.
McCole observed that Daithi Doolan must be doing something right to have had the Attorney General "turning hysterical in recent days". When Doolan himself rose to speak he told the gathering that Sinn Féin was only weeks away from long overdue success in the 26 Counties and that this would spell an end to "cosy cartelism".
Relaying the announcement of the closure of the Ardagh glass factory in Ringsend, with the loss of up to 400 jobs, he outlined the real issues at hand, such as a two-tier health system, the lack of public, affordable housing, drug addiction and the peace process.
Doolan observed that recent attacks by careerist politicians and right-wing media organs were "entirely predictable" and this echoed Frances McCole's comment that such attacks were an attempt to dehumanise republicans in the eyes of the electorate.
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