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The recent victories for the left-wing Sinn Fein are a challenge to globalization and sharply contrast with the right-wing populism recently surfacing in other European elections. Sinn Fein campaigned against the Treaty of Nice, which would have expanded the European Union and which was rejected by Irish voters in a June 2001 referendum. The EU cannot be expanded without voter approval, and the Irish political and business establishment vows to set another referendum for later this year.
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Sinn Fein initially objected to police efforts to identify McCartney's killers, while the outlawed IRA denied any involvement. Both wings of the Irish republican movement have had to change their position drastically because of a campaign by McCartney's five sisters, who will be guests of the White House on St. Patrick's Day (search).
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Sinn Fein has said it “accepts what the IRA is saying, that it was not involved”. However, Special Branch officers insisted that the raid was carried out by republicans, who are current or recently-retired members of the IRA. Furthermore, the sources alleged that there was a South Armagh connection.
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When Sinn Fein was founded in 1905, the only Irishmen inside Locke-Ober were in the kitchen, washing dishes. But now Maskey and his wealthy hosts sat in a private dining room, tucking into salmon and sipping fine wine.
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Sinn Fein had been formed at the beginning of the 20th century. The words are Gaelic and they literally mean, 'ourselves alone.' They mean that we can go and achieve our own freedom, we don't need the help of anyone else do it, but that we have to be a free-standing nation among the nations of the world, and therefore the only answer is Irish unity.
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Seán MacManus is a member of both Sligo County Council and Sligo Borough Council and will be the Sinn Fein candidate in Sligo/North Leitrim in the forthcoming general election. Recognised as the senior republican representative in the North West, Seán has been active in Sinn Fein since the seventies. Read full bio
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