Seanad debates
Wednesday, 26 November 2003
Address by Mr. Joe McCartin, MEP.
We should not be nervous about Europe – it is part of what we are. I am not one of those who recognises separate nations; it is a long time since such entities existed. Marianne Elliot, in her book, The Catholics of Ulster, said that when St. Patrick came to Ulster, the Ulsterman was already a mongrel and that when the Normans arrived, there was only one clan that could be identified as pre-Gaelic. I have looked at the past of Europe and what we have created is much better.
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