C. Flower
05-12-2010, 09:06 PM
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/1205/breaking12.html?via=mr
Apologies if there is already a thread on this, but the Irish Times is reporting that a group called Second Republic is to field General Election candidates.
Like some of others amongst the new political groups this year, Second Republic seems to be mainly about frustration about the status quo, rather than any particular political programme or orientation.
Perhaps someone involved would like to post some more detailed information on why this group has formed and what it plans to do.
“Reform directed and owned by the people,” was the message given at the first meeting of a group seeking to re-establish the state as a second republic.
Up to 80 people attended the meeting at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin yesterday where a group called The Second Republic debated plans to establish a national people-led convention to re-examine the institutions of politics in Ireland.
Organiser of the event, Oliver Moran said, “We’re looking for the people to be given a chance to come together and to discuss what has gone wrong in the country and to bring that forward into political reform.”
Mr Moran, a political science graduate, who works for a technology company in Cork said, “We can look at the mistakes that were made, but unless we correct the underlying issues, unless we address the failings in governance, these mistakes will happen again.”
The group plans to ask candidates in forthcoming general election to sign up to the pledge of organising a national, convention, independent to the Oireachtas, to “address the failings of governance and institutions that underlie the current crisis.” The group said it was looking for reform that was “radical enough to give people the sense of a new beginning.”
“The people need to be consulted,” Mr Moran said, “Only the people can give the answers.”
Meanwhile a protest based on the Icelandic “pots and pans” movement took place outside the Dáil at 2pm yesterday.
Up to 60 people gathered on Kildare Street banging pots, pans and drums for a period of two hours in opposition to the government’s bail out of the banks.
Apologies if there is already a thread on this, but the Irish Times is reporting that a group called Second Republic is to field General Election candidates.
Like some of others amongst the new political groups this year, Second Republic seems to be mainly about frustration about the status quo, rather than any particular political programme or orientation.
Perhaps someone involved would like to post some more detailed information on why this group has formed and what it plans to do.
“Reform directed and owned by the people,” was the message given at the first meeting of a group seeking to re-establish the state as a second republic.
Up to 80 people attended the meeting at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin yesterday where a group called The Second Republic debated plans to establish a national people-led convention to re-examine the institutions of politics in Ireland.
Organiser of the event, Oliver Moran said, “We’re looking for the people to be given a chance to come together and to discuss what has gone wrong in the country and to bring that forward into political reform.”
Mr Moran, a political science graduate, who works for a technology company in Cork said, “We can look at the mistakes that were made, but unless we correct the underlying issues, unless we address the failings in governance, these mistakes will happen again.”
The group plans to ask candidates in forthcoming general election to sign up to the pledge of organising a national, convention, independent to the Oireachtas, to “address the failings of governance and institutions that underlie the current crisis.” The group said it was looking for reform that was “radical enough to give people the sense of a new beginning.”
“The people need to be consulted,” Mr Moran said, “Only the people can give the answers.”
Meanwhile a protest based on the Icelandic “pots and pans” movement took place outside the Dáil at 2pm yesterday.
Up to 60 people gathered on Kildare Street banging pots, pans and drums for a period of two hours in opposition to the government’s bail out of the banks.