Chief Whip Roddy O'Connor outlines the Nationalist Party position at the launch of their election manifesto.

Roddy O'Connor says that the removal of the border is still one of the principal aims of the Nationalist Party. O'Connor comments that "the border can only be removed when harmony is established in all Ireland and when people realise that there isn't any reason why there should be a division of the country".

A RTÉ News speaks to Roddy O'Connor about the Nationalist Party election manifesto broadcast on 19 February 1969.

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