Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I have not said this before. She has two children who are trying to do examinations and she is on hunger strike. She has been wrongfully detained without proper paperwork. A Supreme Court case was heard about the European directives and it has not been adjudicated on. Do they want us to go back to 1798? The Minister, Deputy Shane Ross, is hiding like the cavalrymen.

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The brave people were defeated. After several risings we got rid of the British out of Ireland. It took us a long time but we did. Are we now going to be treated to this kind of codology? I will not say what I was going to say. I will put it down as codology. I will not call it anything that starts with a "b".

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