Taoiseach Micheál Martin has criticised Independent presidential candidate Catherine Connolly’s stance on the European Union (EU), while acknowledging the presidential election campaign has been a “setback” for Fianna Fáil.
“We need to start calling out people who say ‘Oh, but I’m pro-EU’ as they constantly announce and re-announce the supposed end of Irish sovereignty," he said in an address to the crowd at Fianna Fáil’s Theobald Wolfe Tone Commemoration at Bodenstown Graveyard in Co Kildare.
“You’re not pro-EU if you stand against every treaty which has built the union over the last quarter of a century.
“You’re not pro-EU if you constantly say that it’s destroying our neutrality and is in the hands of a military-industrial complex.”
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