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...onetime reputed chief of staff won't have the police to bad-mouth any more. Long suspected of directing bombings across Ireland and Britain while also operating as one of the main spokesmen for Sinn Fein, the group's political wing, McGuinness, 56, used his veteran's status over the weekend to propose that a special Sinn Fein convention support Northern Ireland's police force for the first time in the party's - or Ireland's - history...
...With the support of Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams, the proposal was backed overwhelmingly, and it could cement more than a decade of gradual efforts to reconcile Northern Ireland's Catholics, and their aspirations for a united Ireland, with the Protestants who wish to remain part of the United Kingdom. Should the remaining differences be closed in the coming weeks, McGuinness will share power with Rev. Ian Paisley, the 81-year-old hardline unionist leader, as Northern Ireland's First Ministers on March...
TIME: THEY ALSO HAVE POLITICAL ARMS. I KNOW THIS IS SOMEWHAT APPLES AND ORANGES, BUT THE U.S. SPOKE TO SINN FEIN WHEN THE I.R.A. WAS BLOWING PLACES...
...MURDERED. DENIS DONALDSON, 56, former official with Northern Ireland's Sinn Fein party and British intelligence informant; found dead at his remote rural cottage; in County Donegal, Ireland. In 2002 Northern Ireland's power-sharing government collapsed after Donaldson and two other men were arrested and accused of running an I.R.A. spy ring in British government offices in Belfast. The case against them collapsed late last year, but Donaldson subsequently admitted to being a paid British agent for two decades and was expelled from Sinn Fein. The I.R.A. has denied any involvement in the slaying...
MURDERED. Denis Donaldson, 56, former official in Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, who in December admitted he had been spying on the I.R.A. for the British since the mid-1980s; by gunfire; at his family's holiday home in County Donegal, Ireland. The I.R.A., which renounced political violence last year but has had a policy of killing suspected informants, denied responsibility for the murder...