Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams will speak at the Easter Commemoration in Roslea
THE PRESIDENT of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams will be the main speaker at the annual Fermanagh Easter Sunday Commemoration on Sunday 5th April in Roslea (2.30pm).
Mr Adams will be joined by Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP Michelle Gildernew, the party’s candidate in the May 7 Westminster election. His high profile presence is seen locally as a pragmatic move to maximise the republican/nationalist vote, given the unionist pact to run a sole candidate, Tom Elliott.
The party’s electioneering machine is already in full swing. Just over a week ago, copies of a glossy brochure profiling Ms Gildernew and some of the issues she has been involved in, were delivered door to door in the Lisnaskea area, and, last week, the MP paid a courtesy call on the town’s almost completed £1m new library.
Around the same time, she chaired a well attended CAP meeting in the local hotel at which the DARD minister, and party member, Michelle O’Neill led a team from her department.
Ms Gildernew revealed her leader’s Roslea date when she spoke at the party’s Easter Commemoration in the Assembly last week.
She spoke about the significance of Easter Sunday (’the most sacred date in the republican calendar’) and why Sinn Fein existed.
She commented: “The belief in social equality, economic and political freedom, and that all the people of this island should benefit from the labour of this island are the reasons that Sinn Féin exists.
“Our determination and success in achieving these are the reason we have over 10,000 members across this island at present.
“It’s time for all republicans to come together, in comradeship, solidarity and unity to remember the heroes of 1916.”
Meanwhile, there are other, smaller commemorations planned, among them one organised Republican Sinn Fein for Arney graveyard, also on Easter Sunday, at 2.30pm.
The Sinn Fein commemoration will take place at the traditional plot in Roslea graveyard, at the headstone memorial commemorating local men who were hanged in Enniskillen Jail for their part in the 1798 rebellion.
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