MEP Liadh Ní Riada has urged the people of Kerry to send a strong Sinn Féin team to Europe to counteract what she described as a Fine Gael campaign against Irish sovereignty.
The Ireland South MEP was speaking at the party’s selection convention in Tipperary where she was once selected as the constituency’s candidate for the upcoming European election.
“Week in and week out, we watch aghast in the European Parliament as Fine Gael MEPs brazenly support motions that dilute our sovereignty. They support politics that cut funding from social, environmental and educational programmes.
“They follow a political agenda which protects multinational corporations over the rights of ordinary citizens and over the interests of small businesses,” she said.
The MEP claimed that Fine Gael MEPs are firmly wedded to following a path which will see Ireland pushed into an EU army.
“The creeping militarisation of the EU, aided and abetted by Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, will see us committed to spending more and more money on defence while schools and hospitals crumble, while roads degrade to a dangerous state, while public services are either privatised or cu,” she remarked.
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