18 March 2004 Edition

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Omagh hears 'President for all' message

On Saturday 13 March Ógra Shinn Féin brought their national 'A President For All' campaign to Omagh.

They held a public information stall outside Northern Bank handing out information leaflets and urging the public to sign a petition in support of the campaign. It was a very successful day, with many positive remarks from the public and over 500 men and women signing the petition.

Ógra Shinn Féin is campaigning to gain Six-County voting rights in this year's Irish Presidential elections. The youth movement has launched an online petition at www.apresident forall.com, which already has attracted up to 1,500 signatures, and has also lobbied and successfully passed the motion in a number of councils, including Omagh, Dublin, Derry and Kerry.

Barry McColgan, Six-County organiser for Ógra Shinn Féin, said: "

"As Irish citizens with Irish passports, we feel it is a fundamental sovereign right we are being denied and so call on the Dublin Government to give back this right and allow the people of the Six Counties to vote in this year's election and for the first time in history elect a President truly representative of the whole island of Ireland.

"At present the 26-County elected 'President of Ireland' Mary McAleese was actually born in Belfast and yet the people living there are currently being excluded from voting for her; this nonsense must end."


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