Seanad debates

Wednesday, 17 April 2019

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

 

10:30 am

Photo of Frank FeighanFrank Feighan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Even Eamon de Valera said in 1953 when he went to visit Mr. Churchill that if he had been Taoiseach in 1948, there was no way Ireland would have left the Commonwealth. The rules of the Commonwealth of Nations were changed to allow Ireland to remain in it. A total of 53 countries and 2.4 billion people are in the Commonwealth. A total of 70% of the people born on the island who reside overseas reside in Commonwealth countries. From the point of view of co-operation, democracy, human rights and legal, political and sporting-----

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