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Article: Sinn Fein has higher ambitions as IRA disarms too late for Northern Ireland power-sharing
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- September 27, 2005
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SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
09-27-2005
Dateline: BELFAST, Northern Ireland
As the Irish Republican Army bids a long-overdue farewell to its arms, the happiest people in Ireland appear to be Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness. And the grumpiest? The Rev. Ian Paisley.
This might seem rather backward, given that Sinn Fein spent much of the past decade decrying disarmament as a humiliation and surrender that would never happen, while Paisley's Democratic Unionists insisted nothing less would do.
But for Sinn Fein, which spent the past decade using the IRA's arsenal to win myriad concessions from Britain, the time couldn't be better to get IRA guns out ...