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Sat 04 Apr 2009Party who declared this republic is the one to lead it
OPINION:ON THIS day 60 years ago, a Fine Gael taoiseach, John A Costello, declared Ireland a republic.
The declaration was an emphatic vindication of Michael Collins’s claim that the 1921 Treaty gave Ireland not its ultimate freedom, “but the freedom to achieve it”.
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