Gallagher selected as Meath East Candidate
Meath Sinn Féin are on an election footing and have selected Michael Gallagher as their candidate for the Meath East constituency. The former Kells County Councillor was selected at a convention meeting held in the Headfort Arms Hotel on Thursday evening. Approximately sixty delegates unanimously supported Gallagher, who was proposed by Sinéad Burke and seconded by Mayor Joe Reilly.
In accepting the nomination, Michael Gallagher said “There is massive anger among the people of Meath. This anger is not because they are being asked to pay more, but because they are being asked to pay more to bail out bankers and speculators – the friends of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael – the same people who have put us in this mess. We are a resolute people who have dealt with hardship and adversity in the past and are prepared to do it again. However, we are not prepared to cut jobs, teachers, hospital services and pensions, while bankers, developers and politicians swan off on their luxury yachts to their holiday homes.
“So the challenge before us is to create real change that gives people hope. In Meath Sinn Féin has developed a job creation strategy and an investment strategy, something that Fianna Fáil have not felt necessary. In government in the North, which is vulnerable to the same global economic crisis, Sinn Féin ministers have created jobs, have cherished public services to ensure that not only jobs are maintained, but that hospitals function efficiently and that school class sizes are reduced. Public investment into government construction projects in the North is providing new homes, better roads, jobs and public services. This is not rhetoric or empty promises – this is good Government just sixty miles up the road. The challenge for Meath Sinn Féin is to take the massive anger among the people and show them that Sinn Féin is the party to deliver real change and real government that serves the people and not the bankers and politicians.”
