That was the firm message of Aghadrumsee priest Fr Gabriel Dolan at a protest before the Fermanagh v Laois NFL clash at Brewster Park on Saturday.
Fr Dolan was one of a group of 50 protestors that had the support of ex-Fermanagh GAA greats like Peter McGinnitty and Shane McDermott and Ladies star Joanne Doonan at Brewster Park on Saturday.
For the Fermanagh Gaels Against Genocide have been very active in the campaign to try and persuade the GAA to cut all ties with the insurance company who have been found by the UN to have alleged links with the Israeli war machine.
Fermanagh was one of ten counties who passed motions calling on the GAA to cut ties with the insurance company.
But GAA top brass banned the motions from the recent Congress gathering in Croke Park in a terse message saying as the UN report was from an outside body it would not get on the agenda.
Two members of the protest outside the game (Image: Katrina McManus)
In other words, as it did not come from the GAA itself it was not valid.
This is seen as a form of censorship by the protestors some of whom made their way into the Congress chamber to vent their anger last Saturday week.
This was met with an angry response by GAA President Jarlath Burns who said: “it was a bit ironic that people who are protesting against illegal occupation will come in an occupy our building illegally.”
Speaking exclusively to The Impartial Reporter, Fr Dolan said: “The campaign is on-going and it is just to remind everybody that we are not going away and even now you can see we have probably more here today than previous protests.
“And even if the Congress is over, the issue is not over.
“And we hope that people will come out all over the country.”
Gaels Against Genocide have also been protesting (Image: Katrina McManus)
The incursion by protestors to Congress made headline news on a day when none of the delegates from the ten counties, including Fermanagh said a word about a motion they had deemed important enough to pass unanimously at their county board meeting.
Asked about the controversial entry to Congress he said: “I am glad that people got in there and it was our own Fermanagh people who got to the top table, and I think we should be proud of them.”
GAA President Jarlath Burns said that a GAA doorman had been injured in the scuffle.
Fr Dolan rejected this assertion with a counter view, that “in fact it was one of the protestors who were injured.”
“I saw his injuries and he was bit on the ear and the face, and he was more injured than anybody.”
The anti-Allianz protestors say they won't stop (Image: Katrina McManus)
Fr Dolan said he was very disappointed in the Fermanagh delegates as they let us down very badly.
“They never spoke up and then I saw locally that one of the delegates who was there was “trivialising it and saying that Allianz was not a serious issue at all.
“That, to me, was a shame.”
Fr Dolan said there was general disappointment all over the country and there will be a major protest at the National League finals.
“The fight goes on.”