Turas Siar 367 - Donncha Ó Gallchobhair (R.I.P.) as an gCorrán i bparóiste Acla faoi agallamh ag Seán Ó Tuairisc, RnaG.

Tháinig sibh oiread seo clár.

You (plural) have come this much of a program..

Oibre

Work.

Scríofa ós rud nár dearnadh riamh go dtí roimhe sin.

Written because it had never been done before then..

Bhí daoiní an-mhaith i mbun an pháirtí agus bhoil shíl muid féin ag an am go mb'iad, mar a déarfá, a dhéanfadh cuid mhaith den áit ach

The people in charge of the party were very good and, well, we ourselves thought at the time that they would, as you might say, make much of the place but.

Nuair a chuaigh siad isteach chomh luath agus a chuaigh siad isteach le Fine Gael i gComhrialtas Bhoil bin deireadh le Clann na Poblachta, mar a déarfá, ná

When they went in, as soon as they went in with Fine Gael in the Coalition Government, that was the end of Clann na Poblachta, as you might say, wasn’t it.

Níorbh iad na Poblachtánaigh a thoghadh iad agus a chuir ar an tsaol iad agus

It was not the Republicans who elected them and brought them into being.

Nuair a ghlac siad páirt ansin sa gcomhrialtas sin Seán McBride agus Noel Browne Bhoil, ní raibh.

When Seán McBride and Noel Browne of Boil then took part in that coalition, there was not...

An oiread sin measa orthu agus bhí deich gcinn de shuíocháin acu sa toghchán sin dhá ndéanfadh siad a gcuid oibre i gceart thiocfadh leo, b'fhéidir, deich gcinn eile a bheith acu.

So much respect for them and they had ten seats in that election; if they did their work properly, they could, perhaps, have another ten.

Ach ba é an rud a rinne siad bhí bhí níos mó páirtithe, níos mó daoiní san iomaíocht acu ná a bhí ag Fine Gael.

But what they did was they had more parties, more people competing than Fine Gael had.

in áit díriú isteach b'fhéidir ar scór cinn toghcheantair agus féacháil le le

instead of perhaps focusing on a score of constituencies and trying to

daoiní a thoghadh in áit, mar a déarfá, ag iarraidh an tír a thógáil in aon léim amháin agus

people who were elected instead, as you might say, trying to build the country in one single leap and.

Sa toghchán sin bhí Noel Browne anseo in Acaill agus Noel Hartnet. Bhí an mioscais atá ar siúl ag an am, bhí siad ag cur in aghaidh Seán McBride.

In that election Noel Browne was here in Achill and Noel Hartnet. The animosity that was going on at the time, they were opposing Seán McBride.

Agus tá daoiní ann a shíleanns gurb iad cúrsaí sláinte ba chiontaí leis an briseadh sin a tháinig a tháinig idir

And there are people who think that it was health issues that were to blame for that break that came between them.

Noel Browne agus Seán Mac Giolla Bhríde, ní ní an fhírinne ar chor ar bith.

Noel Browne and Seán Mac Giolla Bhríde, it is not the truth at all.

Bhí sé tarlaithe i bhfad roimhe sin.

It had happened long before that.