Building a movement for a New Ireland
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We seek to build a movement for a #NewIreland
A New Ireland that encompasses all the traditions on our island.
Our approach: to have inclusive conversations about the kind of society we can create together.
Our young people demonstrated how we can do this 👇🙌
“What this week at the Fleadh has shown is that positivity, openness and inclusion is the way to win a referendum” - @columeastwood
“Anyone filling Maghaberry prison full of kids from Derry and West Belfast don’t have a plan. They must know this is going nowhere other than frankly sending more kids to jail.” - @columeastwood
“If we’re selling a positive vision of what we want to achieve, the campaign has to reflect that. When we’re arguing for change and selling a better future if we’re approaching that with a negative and divisive tone then that’s what people think it will feel like” - @Tiernanbrady
“More and more people are coming forward saying I’m interested in this for normal political, economic reasons, not for any historical reason and we’re seeing political Unionism react to that.” - @columeastwood
“We have to turn the argument around. It’s about reconciliation. It’s about the economy. It’s not about some romantic notion, it’s about making people’s lives better” - @columeastwood
“The process of getting all our ducks in a row should start early. Everyone will have their own constituency to talk to and they’re the best person to do it. The other side doesn’t have to convince someone to vote no, they just have to create doubt” - @Tiernanbrady
Starting off our @FeileBelfast discussion on securing and winning a unity referendum, with @columeastwood, @Tiernanbrady and @AmandaFBelfast.
Go raibh míle maith agaibh Uachtarán na hÉireann Michael D. Higgins agus Sabina Higgins. 14 years of courage, compassion and moral authority on behalf of the people of Ireland. Tá bród orainn.
ALT Image of President Michael D. Higgins and Sabina Higgins. Text above reads: Thank You Go raibh maith agaibh President Michael D. Higgins and Sabina Higgins
We’re at @SDLPlive conference, where @columeastwood and @LeoVaradkar are discussing the way towards a New Ireland. #SDLP25
ALT The New Ireland Commission’s Colum Eastwood and former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar discussing a New Ireland at the SDLP Conference in Belfast.
Our mission is to build a new Ireland by winning a referendum. That means we need to understand the needs, hopes, concerns and fears of everyone but particularly people in the middle who are open to change.
@ColumEastwood speaking to @dmcbfs at this year’s @FeileBelfast.
“Neutrality is a cornerstone of the Republic and it should remain so. Ireland should focus relentlessly on that moral position that we have on the issues that are destabilising the world.” - @columeastwood at @FeileBelfast.
“Reform are gaining lots of ground. It says something about the state of the British State that is irreparable. In contrast, we’ve an alternative, an option out of that.” - @columeastwood at @FeileBelfast
ALT New Ireland Commission Chairperson Colum Eastwood speaking at St. Mary’s University, Belfast.
“We need to relentlessly focus on those people who haven’t made up their minds yet” - @columeastwood at @FeileBelfast
ALT New Ireland Commission Chairperson Colum Eastwood speaking at St. Mary’s University, Belfast.
“In the North that bit in the middle who are either unsure or curious about it - we need to know who they are, what they care about, and then speak to them relentlessly to work to convince them.” - @columeastwood at @FeileBelfast.
New Ireland Commission retweeted
“This constitutional context isn’t working. It doesn’t work for young nationalists in Derry. It doesn’t work for young unionists in this city. It’s not reconciliation OR unity. It’s reconciliation AND unity. And better public services for everyone who lives here.”
ALT Colum Eastwood MP at the New Ireland Commission event at Féile Belfast.
“It’s a very good idea to put the political parties, and the trade unions, the business organisations, and the community organisations into a room to discuss a new Ireland.” - @columeastwood at @FeileBelfast
“People have been asked to wait long enough and they’ve been told not yet too many times. Presidential voting rights shouldn’t be an issue at all. Why can’t we talk about reconciliation in a political context that makes people’s lives better?” - @columeastwood at @FeileBelfast
ALT New Ireland Commission Chairperson Colum Eastwood speaking in St. Mary’s University, Belfast.
‘People are now looking for what’s next. There’s a whole generation of people who are looking for something different. People are saying why do we have to be stuck here in a constitutional context that doesn’t work for people?’ - @columeastwood at @FeileBelfast.
New Ireland Commission retweeted
‘I used to think Scottish Independence would come first, before unity. I don’t think that’s the case anymore. The impact of Brexit, the fundamental changes to our society have completely changed the calculation.’
@columeastwood @NewIrelandComm @FeileBelfast
ALT Colum Eastwood MP at New Ireland Commission event at Féile Belfast.
‘In my view the UK is disintegrating before our very eyes. I don’t think there’s any form of government now in London that could stop the momentum towards constitutional change in Ireland.’- @columeastwood at @FeileBelfast