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...real test for Sinn Fein comes at this week's by-election in the Irish Republic and in Northern Ireland in early May, when local council elections - and possibly the U.K. general election - will be held. Paula McCartney, 40, one of Robert's five sisters, is considering running for Belfast City Council. She says she favors the moderate nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party, Sinn Fein's rival for Northern Ireland's Catholic vote. Her appearance on the ballot could upset Sinn Fein's shaky hold on a seat it won in her neighborhood, Short Strand, in the last election...
...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...
...McCartneys have shown similar courage, organizing a rally attended by 1,000 people and lobbying politicians from Belfast to Washington. Sean Brady, the Catholic primate of Ireland, said their bravery "rendered transparent and weak the efforts of others to bully, frighten and control whole communities for their own selfish or political ends." Now the McCartneys hope others will speak out, too. Some witnesses have come forward, Paula McCartney says, but they have denied seeing the actual attack. "Seventy-two people could not have all been in the toilets," she says...
...increasingly, people in Northern Ireland are no longer willing to turn a blind eye. "The people are trying to tell the I.R.A. they want them to go away," says Michael McConville, whose mother was killed by the group in 1972. "They're starting to stand up to them. Years ago, they would never have stood up to them." Let down by the movement they once expected to protect their rights, republican communities are beginning to rediscover their own power to protect themselves...
...lining: the 11,000 France Télécom shares Breton got in 2002 on joining the company had more than doubled in value by the time he sold them - to just over €250,000. - By Peter Gumbel Emerald Isle Denial Intel is reconsidering future investments in Ireland, its European base, after the state withdrew aid worth €170 million for a €1.6 billion computer chip plant in County Kildare, following hints from Brussels that the subsidy would fall foul of E.U. rules...