We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.

Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.

For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.