Republican News · Thursday 17 July 2003

New Sinn Féin office in Galway city

TD tackles British on funding for Irish language media

Sinn Féin last Friday formally opened its new office in Galway City. The official opening was performed by Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD, who said Sinn Féin is the fastest growing party in the West of Ireland and "offers the only real alternative to the failed polices of the establishment parties who have let down the people of the West".

As he was in Galway, the home of the Irish language TV station TG4, Ó Caoláin also took the opportunity to call on the British government to live up to its Good Friday Agreement commitments to make the television station accessible to all areas of the Six Counties, saying it was a matter of "equal rights" for Irish language speakers. He also called for the British government to urgently establish a properly resourced Irish language TV and radio fund for the Six Counties.