By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night

By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

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

Of course I wrote most of the Constitution myself. I remember hesitating for a long time over the US presidential system. But it wouldn't have done - we were too trained in English democracy to sit down under a dictatorship which is what the American system really is.

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.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.