Mattie McGrath: Calls for Reconciliation as Northern Assembly Stalls

I too am glad to be able to say a couple of folks are on scale, I think the people of Northern Ireland are quite bewildered, they went to the polls a couple of weeks ago, and I met some of them actually at the flagpole to put on two weekends ago, and they said why did they get up and go vote, and they voted nationalists, and they think that the assembly is not sitting, so there's more than the system is the eye, and the whole clamber around the border poll, look, I'm well known, has been a Republican, my late dad fought in the war of independence, and he spent some time, a good time in prison, and suffered, and many people did, there's not many monopoly in that, but I do think that the statements, you know, and even on the night of the election, I think Deputy Macdonald said, we have to have a border poll faster than we think, we have to make hay slowly here, because we must bring the people with us, you know, and we can't have that, you know, we had it for long enough in transit from the union's side, now we see there is Brexit, and some people seem not registered, Brexit happened, sovereign people voted to leave the EU, and I remember attending late night meetings here in government buildings, as leader of our group here, with the Tarnashtan, and then Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, our deputy Varadkar, and like, we were asked about the borders, and there was going to be no hard borders, and I remember asking the question, what about the hard borders that's between Bosnia-Herzegovna and Croatia, which I go to, on a regular basis, I used to, and like, we kind of put our heads in the sand and said, no, this won't happen, and he told me, it might be in Bali, it might be something else, but nonetheless, these are the problems, and there's huge problems, and Minister of State, Dr. Burnham knows this, there's huge problems with industry, with imports, exports, and there's huge issues to be dealt with here, but this last, this latest stalemate, and, you know, crash landing, I suppose, really, and the damage to the Good Friday, that maybe caused the Good Friday Agreement, So, I see what the architects of that, the late Deputy Martin Mancer, a former colleague of mine, the late Father Alex Weed, from Nina, Enoch and Tipper Dorn, and many people that worked very hard to get that Good Friday, and indeed, the late Dr. Paisley, and with Martin McGuinness, they got together, so look, we all have to get together, in fact, I too, certainly, and I knew, or my family knew, um, um, um, um, one of them killed in Rockland Clyde, and they just eluse me at the moment, they worked with my, my brothers and all, so there needs to be, we can't just, wash all those away either, uh, we can't, uh, we can't, um, just forget, uh, the past, and have a big cloak put down over, so, there needs to be reconciliation, but there needs to be, obviously, a lot of, uh, counselling, and, and, and, and research, and respect of engagement, and listening to the people that were involved, and try, and the impasse, and move forward here, because, uh, the institutions have been closed down, and it's to nobody's benefit, that very soon, because, and some other people have mentioned, why would the M&As be getting paid, and it's a valued question, if they're not going to sit. Good morning.