Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Of course Galway is awake. They won the all-Ireland. They are alive and awake and are not going to accept this any more because it has gone on for far too long. All governments have paid lip service, but the permanent government are here, with their hands on the handlebars, and it would take a jackhammer to get them off. They do not want to give anything to rural Ireland. Let the croppies lie down. Cromwell said "To hell or Connaught". Now it is to hell or any place except Dublin. That is bad. We see the homeless problem, the problem with education, with parking-----

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