{"id":5433,"date":"2025-07-10T08:23:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=5433"},"modified":"2025-07-10T08:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:23:18","slug":"defend-our-history-rally-to-save-the-gpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/defend-our-history-rally-to-save-the-gpo\/","title":{"rendered":"Defend Our History: Rally to Save the GPO"},"content":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has called on the public to attend the Rally to Save the GPO at 1pm this Saturday 12 July at the GPO on O\u2019Connell Street, Dublin. <br \/><br \/>Teachta Crowe said:<br \/> <br \/>\u201cRally to Save the GPO will send a clear message to Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael \u2013 hands off our history. <br \/><br \/>\u201cThe GPO is the most iconic site of our nations\u2019 struggle for freedom, a symbol of our proud history of resistance to colonial rule and oppression.  <br \/><br \/>\u201cThe place where the proclamation was read aloud by P\u00e1draig Mac Piarais on Easter Monday 1916, declaring the Irish Republic.  Where it was bravely defended during the Easter Rising. <br \/><br \/>\u201cFianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael, in their relentless pursuit of commercial gain, are attempting to erode the historical character of the GPO, pushing plans that would it reduced to a soulless, commercialised shell of its former self. <br \/><br \/>\u201cThis is not progress.  This is a desecration of our heritage, and it is yet another example of Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael\u2019s betrayal of Ireland\u2019s proud revolutionary history. <br \/><br \/>\u201cFollowing the government\u2019s shameful decision to back the handing over of the Moore Street battlefield site to a British property developer to pave over for profit, one would be forgiven for coming to the conclusion that Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael are hellbent on erasing the legacy of the Easter Rising. <br \/>\t<br \/>\u201cIn no other country that fought for its independence would you encounter such blatant disrespect and vandalism of the nation\u2019s hallowed ground.  What have Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael got against the heroic men and women of 1916?  <br \/><br \/>\u201cWe cannot and will not stand by and allow this go ahead.  The GPO is not for sale.  Our proud history and heritage are not for sale.  The GPO belongs to the Irish People.  It belongs to all of us.  <br \/><br \/>\u201cI ask anyone who agrees to join the Rally to Save the GPO at 1pm on Saturday 12th June, at the GPO on O\u2019Connell Street, Dublin.\u201d <br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has called on the public to attend the Rally to Save the GPO at 1pm this Saturday 12 July at the GPO on O\u2019Connell Street, Dublin. Teachta Crowe said: \u201cRally to Save the GPO will send a clear message to Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5434,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433\/revisions\/5434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}