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Even-year seasons? According to the IRA record books, they were a lost cause for the Crimson...
This even-year season begins without the IRA trophy—a stinging reminder to a varsity eight that went almost wire-to-wire as the nation’s No. 1 crew last year...
...Northern Ireland. Thanks to continuing mistrust between Protestant unionist leaders and Sinn Fein, efforts to restart the kind of coalition local government that was borne out of the 1998 Good Friday peace accords have been stalled for the past three years. And the murder of Donaldson, a convicted IRA bomber who served time in prison along with Sinn Fein head Gerry Adams in the 1970s, is certain to further complicate matters. Unionist leaders like the Rev. Ian Paisley say they have doubts about whether the IRA has genuinely laid down its weapons, and maintained that the killing...
...There is no shortage of suspects for the murder. Although the IRA denied killing Donaldson, former members of the group may have taken it into their own hands to extract revenge on the man they blamed for putting them in jail or sending other comrades to their deaths. Other Republican splinter groups opposed to the peace process certainly had enough motivation to do it. On the other hand, some members of Sinn Fein have implied that the same people who got Donaldson to become spy in the mid 1980s had their own reasons to silence him, since he remained...
...Much of the current political stalemate in Northern Ireland, in fact, can be traced back to Donaldson himself. As head of Sinn Fein's administrative offices at the Northern Ireland assembly in the late 90s, Donaldson was accused by Britain of spying for the IRA, accusations which helped bring down Northern Ireland's landmark power sharing local government in 2002 amidst mutual suspicions and recrimination. Only after those charges were suddenly dropped against Donaldson and two others last December did he reveal on national TV the stunning news that he in fact had been on the British intelligence payroll...