'By marking it here, we’re trying to take a bit of heat out of it, trying to take a bit of the fear out of it.”
July 12th should be made a bank holiday in the Republic of Ireland to ‘reclaim it’ from sectarianism, a Green Party TD has said.
“I think that flies in the face of reconciliation and shared understand that a new bank holiday on 12th July could help build.” In recent years, Sinn Féin politicians have begun attending events traditionally associated with the unionist community and Deputy Costello feels making the 12th a bank holiday would be in that same spirit of reconciliation.
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