Word: fein
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...decades, members of the I.R.A. have scrawled the slogan on walls and shouted it out in British courts: "Our day will come." Now they are being asked to consider whether that day has arrived - even if it's not quite in the way they expected. Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams said last week that the time has come for the I.R.A. to consider a "purely political and democratic" approach to its goal of a united Ireland. The I.R.A. said it would give the request from its political allies "due consideration." Adams' opponents accuse him of electioneering: he delivered his message...
...Ireland that has long surrounded crimes committed by I.R.A. members, the family has galvanized public opinion against the I.R.A., which for the past 35 years has claimed to be defending the Catholics of Northern Ireland from Protestant gunmen. According to a recent poll, nearly half the supporters of Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing, want the group to disband. While the sisters basked in Washington goodwill, Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams was snubbed by congressional allies and disinvited from the St. Patrick's Day party at the White House. Says Congressman Peter King, a longtime Sinn Fein supporter...
...I.R.A. released a signed statement that it had offered to shoot the men responsible, an offer the McCartney family said it rejected. Since then more victims of I.R.A. thuggery have gone public. Outrage at the I.R.A.'s failure to root out criminal elements has focused scrutiny on Sinn Fein, which is already under pressure to distance itself from the I.R.A. after a $50 million robbery at a Belfast bank in December that the British and Irish governments have blamed on the armed group. Congressional supporters of Sinn Fein say the group must dismantle the I.R.A. if it hopes to revive...
...Seven Sinn Fein members accused by the victim's family of involvement in the killing have been suspended. Adams also said he would instruct his solicitor to hand over the names of people the McCartneys have implicated in the case to Northern Ireland's Police Ombudsman. This represents a huge concession for Northern Ireland's leading republican. The taboo on helping the police - blamed for collusion with loyalist paramilitaries - is still strong. Former I.R.A. member Anthony McIntyre says the McCartney murder shows they've forgotten that their objections were always supposed to be against "political policing, not policing itself...
...contrast to Sinn Fein's reaction to James McGinley's murder back in 2003 shows how radically party attitudes have changed. When, a day after her son's death, Eileen McGinley asked for help at Sinn Fein's local office, "They wouldn't speak to me," she says. "I got the cold shoulder." She had heard whispers identifying the killer as an I.R.A. man, Bart Fisher. A month later people describing themselves as Fisher's supporters and members of the "republican movement" came to her home to warn the McGinley family off attending court or drawing attention to the case...