SF: Unity is “inevitable” as they celebrate 100th birthday

26/11/2005 - 08:27:07
Sinn Féin is holding a cross-border conference in Monaghan today to mark the exact founding of the party one hundred years ago.

The conference will focus on planning for a united Ireland which, according to the party is inevitable.

Party general secretary, Mitchel McLaughlin, says he believes even unionists now accept that Irish unity will eventually become a reality, and that they appear to have a more realistic view of the future than successive Irish governments.

But, he warned that unity will not be brought about without continual pressure on the mainstream political parties on both sides of the Irish Sea.