Fly The National Colours For Easter Week
Éirígí spokesperson Breandán Mac Cionnaith has encouraged people across Ireland to commemorate Ireland’s patriot dead by displaying the national colours from their homes during Easter Week. Speaking from Portadown he said,
“For over a century Easter week has been a time of commemoration in Ireland. A time to remember the rebel dead of the 1916 Rising and all of those who have given their lives in the long fight for Irish freedom.
In villages, towns and cities we come together each Easter to pay tribute to their sacrifice and to re-commit ourselves to the struggle to establish an Irish Republic that will deliver equality, justice and freedom for all.
Breandán Mac Cionnaith speaking at an Éirígí Easter Commemoration in Belfast, 2017.
Unfortunately, the Covid-19 crisis means that it will not be possible to hold Easter commemorations this year.
Instead Éirígí For A New Republic is backing the National Graves Association’s call for families to display the National Flag from their homes over the Easter period, starting today, Friday April 10th. Displaying the tricolour will serve to both remember our patriot dead and as a statement of national solidarity in these unprecedented times.”