The only people who terrorised me were the forces of foreign occupation. I don't want to see anyone killed and i'm sorry for all deaths. i'm sorry that the will of the Irish people was denied, that a false, artifical line was drawn across my country to create a gerrymandered state with an inbuilt majority which was passed off as democracy. I'm sorry that generations have suffered because within that gerrymandered state elections were fixed to give one section of our community supreme control over the other. I'm sorry that draconian laws were used to make it illegal to fly the Irish tricolour in our own country. What proud person would tolerate these conditions in their own land and not want to do something about it. I'm sorry for all of this and i can't wait for the day, which will arrive, when as an Irishman i don't have to explain to anyone why i'm proud to be Irish , proud of my relatives who fought for Ireland and Ireland only and proud of everyone who challenges colonialism, slavery, oppression and the denial of self determination.
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