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Dead silence. Embarrassment all round. Not aman dare suggest that. That would be letting down the lads inside, wouldn't it? And it would batter the ould image a bit. So nobody spoke up and the nonpolitical G.A.A. Board passed its political motion by default. Cowards in conference !
"Because this motion is political”, declared league secretary and bourgeois schooln ister Brendan McStravick, it will be noted in the minutes but nobody outside this room will ever hear of it."
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Last Saturday a meeting was held ; FREE CITIZEN 16th OCTOBER 1970