Remember, Remember

Earlier this year the Tyrone Hibernians paid tribute to the memory of Blessed Patrick O'Loughran, a priest from the ancient parish of Donaghmore who was martyred in Dublin on St Bridget's Day,1612.
The English crown forces put Fr O'Loughran to a gruesome public death simply because he had been a priest in the army of the exiled Hugh O'Neill during the Nine-Years'-War.
Fr O'Loughran refused to renounce his Catholic faith or pledge allegiance to the English crown, stating that his only allegiance was to God. He was forced to watch the brutal execution of an elderly Catholic Bishop from County Down before he himself had his entrails torn out before his eyes.
While we have understandably focused on Irish martyrs, the Tyrone A.O.H. also honours the memory of all Catholic martyrs around the world who have died for the Faith.
On this date, while people on the neighbouring island to the east of us engage in an orgy of anti-Catholic bigotry involving celebratory bonfires and the like, we say a prayer for the English Catholic martyrs, many of them friends and supporters of the Irish, who also gave their lives for the one, true Faith.
We also remember the little Irish martyrs of today, the unborn children whose mothers are now paid by the British government to travel to Britain and whose brutal deaths are also now directly financed by the British state. Is this yet another attempt to reduce the native Irish population and pave the way to more easily steal our gold and other resources?
The Hibernian tradition from which Fr O'Loughran sprung is still here and still strong. Unlike others we will not abandon our Catholic Faith or our loyalty to the ancient Irish nation and her people, born and unborn.
Éire go Brách!

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Contact your Sinn Féin Representatives

• Tell them you are totally opposed to Sinn Féin’s abortion policy, and their campaign to legalise abortion is not done in your name as an Irish man or woman
• Tell them you want ALL the children of the nation cherished equally – as stated in the 1916 Easter Proclamation
• Tell them you want Sinn Féin to stop deceiving their constituents by claiming the Party “isn’t in favour of abortion” while supporting abortion-on-demand
• Tell them you will vote in future elections only for candidates who uphold the right to life of unborn children
• Tell them you want both mothers and babies protected from abortion by being given life-affirming options in crisis pregnancies

The local AOH chapter here in the US (along with all the other chapters across the US) has the motto/goal of "26 + 2 = 1".  In other words, they want a united ireland.  26 counties in Ireland, plus 2 from Northern Ireland = 1 United Ireland.

I was just curious if 1) such an idea is being pushed in Ireland  2) If "real" irish care about this goal  3) how politically charged this issue is.

 

Can you explain why they only want 2 counties from Northern Ireland?