Members of the Workers’ Party gathered at a sunny Bodenstown Graveyard, Co. Kildare, for the annual Wolfe Tone commemoration on Sunday, 28th June.
At the event which commemorates the life and ideas of United Irishman leader, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Workers’ Party activist Gemma Weir addressed the crowd.
She said: “Citizen versus subject; democracy versus the divine right of kings – we can look back 200 years and wonder why there was need for that debate. How could anybody defend the divine right of kings, or how could anybody defend the concept that the population must blindly submit to the diktat of some hereditary ruler? Indeed, but in reality how far have we progressed? Now we have the divine right of bankers, the divine right of markets, the divine right of bondholders.”
