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Hearts of Galway golf 'de Valera' to denounce Fianna Fail at GAAW event for Croi and Red Cross in Oughterard
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THE GALWAY Alliance Against War will host what it calls the "True Fianna Fail Easter Commemoration" on Easter Sunday with the former taoiseach and president Eamon de Valera, as the principal speaker. The GAAW's event takes place at 1pm in Eyre Square to coincide with the Fianna Fail wreath laying ceremony at Liam M e l l o w s ' statue. The part of Eamon de Valera will be played by an actor and there will be a 'funeral ceremony' for the 'death' of Irish neutrality. "The Easter Rising was about achieving Irish independence and an independent Irish foreign policy," a spokesperson for the Galway Alliance said. "It is the height of hypocrisy for Fianna Fail to commemorate the men and women o f 1916 having betrayed what these people fought and died for with its support for the US and British war against Iraq." The group feels that de Valera's masterful reply to Winston Churchill's criticism of Irish neutrality is pertinent to t o d a y ' s situation. In this speech the

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Eamon de Valera who will be quoted extensively on Sunday. Fianna Fail leader said: "When [Britain's] necessity was sufficiently great other people's rights were not to count. It is quite true, that other great powers believe in this same code and have behaved in accordance with it. That is precisely why we have the disastrous succession of wars."

Pictured at the launch of the event at Oughterard Golf Club are (left to right): Joe Healy, Oughterard; Martin Mulkerrins, Moycullen; Kieran Daly, research and medical director, Croi; Paddy Keogh, Galway; and Conor O'Malley, Lettermore.

BY JULIE T I E R N E Y OUGHTERARD GOLF Club is hosting a unique charity golf weekend on Friday May 2 and Saturday May 3 which is jointly in aid of local heart charity Croi and Oughterard Red Cross. The event, a 4-ball Blitz, is open to ladies and gents in any combination, with an entry fee o f 3 0 for members and 4 0 for n o n - m e m b e r s . The main sponsors for this event are Bank o f Scotland, C T Electric, and Peter Murphy Electrical. , For timesheet contact Joe Healy (086) 819 5880, Martin Mulkerrins (091) 555149, or the club house directly (091) 552131.

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