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“In 2016, let us all join the Rising, and the only final message is this very clear: Up the Rebels. Up a sovereign and independent Irish republic.”

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Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.

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The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country.

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