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Adams said the first port of call for changing Sinn Fein policy would be the party's executive, where at least two-thirds backing would be required. But Adams said he was "not yet in a position" to recommend any policy changes when the executive meets in Dublin later this week.
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The results of an mrbi poll in today's Irish Times (subs needed) show a slight drop in support for Sinn Fein, from 12% to 11% although party leader Gerry Adams' approval rating has plummeted 9 points to 42%. Core support for the party remains unchanged at 9%.
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Standing beside the McCartneys, he told CNN: "There's no question Sinn Fein and the IRA are involved in a coverup there. Gerry Adams has to free himself." Modern Western democratic parties "do not, and should not, and cannot have private armies, and cannot be involved in criminality and violence."
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One of the three IRA men arrested in Colombia at the weekend was allegedly Sinn Fein’s link with Cuba. Niall Connolly is suspected of involvement in arranging Gerry Adams’s trip to the Caribbean island next month. Connolly, a former teacher from Dublin who travelled under the name David Bracken, had been the republican movement’s contact in Cuba since 1996, according to security sources in Belfast. They said that the IRA “envoy” was believed to be part of a team helping to organise Mr Adams’s eight-day trip to the island as head of a Sinn Fein delegation.
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Hain said that, based on his negotiations last week with Sinn Fein, he was confident the party would make these shifts soon. Doing this, he said, "will make for a decisive and irrevocable break from a past of violence and criminality."
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"They are going to have to earn it," Martin McGuinness, another senior Sinn Fein leader, said in a speech to party members. "We have to make them realize that they must be the servants of the people ."
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