Leading Sinn Féin politicians today embarked on a four-week tour of the Republic to urge people to push strongly for the full delivery of the Belfast Agreement.
Senior leadership figures have been lined up to address public meetings over the coming weeks, with the party's Assembly Group leader, Mr Conor Murphy, due to kick off the series of events in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, tonight.
Party chairman Mr Mitchel McLaughlin was also due to make keynote speeches in Limerick tomorrow and Cork on Thursday.
There will also be events in counties Monaghan, Galway, Kilkenny and Waterford, culminating in a meeting in Dublin in March that will be addressed by Mr Martin McGuinness.
Foyle MLA Mr Mitchel McLaughlin said: "There are many challenges and difficulties in front of us but if the peace process proves anything it is that there is an alternative, it is that ordinary people can bring about real change".
Mr McLaughlin said Sinn Féin remained committed to the full implementation of the Agreement .
However, he insisted the party could not do that on its own. "Over the next four weeks Sinn Féin leaders will be speaking throughout the 26 counties," he confirmed.
"We will be calling on people to come out in defence of the Agreement and to save the peace process".
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