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Sinn Fein: Irish Republic
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Among them were the four members of the Balcombe Street gang, transferred to the Irish Republic last week after serving 22 years in British prisons and including Hugh Doherty, a brother of the top Sinn Fein figure Pat Doherty. Michael O'Brien and Padraic Wilson, "officers commanding" IRA prisoners in the Maze and Portlaoise jails, were ... present.
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Fears of Irish immersion in an unaccountable European mega-state underlay Sinn Fein's opposition. At the same time, Sinn Fein campaigned strongly against the growing wave of anti-immigrant nationalism in the Irish Republic. This strategy of progressive rather than reactionary nationalism was voiced best by Danny
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It comes from an aunt of the murdered Robert McCartney, but it is something that will be exercising many of the democrats within Sinn Fein. Margaret Quinn, in a letter to the Irish News yesterday (subs required):
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