RSF Condemns ISME Remarks

national | miscellaneous | press release Wednesday August 26, 2009 22:30 by Richard Walsh - Republican Sinn Féin tiocfaidh at btinternet dot com c/- Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill, 223, Parnell Street, Dublin 1, Ireland +44-7835 620 592 / +353-87 261 8603

Republican Sinn Féin have criticised the so-called "Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association" (ISME) for their partitionism, suggesting that it is patriotic to forget about one and a half million Irish people on the north-eastern side of the British-created border.

Republican Sinn Féin have criticised the so-called "Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association" (ISME) for their partitionism, suggesting that it is patriotic to forget about one and a half million Irish people on the north-eastern side of the British-created border.

Mark Fielding of the ISME has said that he would “like to see a bit more patriotism and shopping locally down in the south of Ireland.” He was responding to the awarding of a Stg £1,000,000 HSE contract to supply fruit and vegetables to hospitals in County Donegal to a firm based in the County Derry village of Claudy.

A spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin pointed out that the country consists of thirty-two counties, and that to suggest otherwise was what was unpatriotic. “There is a duty on Irish people to protect all Irish jobs, regardless of which side of the border they are on”, he added.

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