Analysis: Vote for an Ireland of Equals

Date: 16th May '02

Name: article from RM Irish news round up

Analysis: Vote for an Ireland of Equals

On the eve of the election, there is a palpable air of excitement
and expectation. Sinn Fein election workers have been going at it
hard for many months now and they all report a tremendously
positive response. The results of a recent series of opinion
polls appear to back up this optimism.

The message from Sinn Fein candidates is that they offer the only
real alternative. People are responding to the party's work on
the peace process and its proposals on health, housing,
childcare, job creation, rural regeneration, equality and respect
for the people's decision on the Nice Treaty.

Over the past three weeks, Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, Labour and the
PDs hid behind economists rather than deal with the real concerns
of the Irish people. They have predictably avoided defending
their records on the two-tier health system, on the housing
crisis, on the issue of Irish unity and on a whole raft of other
social and economic matters. They have avoided explaining their
mismanagement of the wealth created by the Celtic Tiger over the
past ten years

The real choice in General Election 2002 is a choice between
those who are working to create an Ireland of Equals and those
who have created an unequal and divided Ireland.

It is a choice between the only growing force in Irish politics
and the stagnant array of parties who have failed to inspire the
electorate.

It is a choice between political commitment and political
careerism.

It is a choice between real change and more of the same.

When the next Dail assembles, more Sinn Fein TDs from across the
island will walk through the doors of Leinster House as a new era
begins in Irish politics.

You can play your part in making this happen by voting for your
local Sinn Fein candidate.

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