Article: INTELLIGENCER; Fianna Fail, Sinn Fein at Odds


Irish Voice
12-09-2003
Fianna Fail, Sinn Fein at Odds

IT will be fascinating to watch the interplay between the different
political parties in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic over the next
few weeks.

It will be especially interesting to watch how the Sinn Fein/Fianna Fail
dynamic begins to play out. Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern is now
keenly aware that Sinn Fein not only have removed the SDLP from the
position of top Nationalist party in the North, but they now have set their
sights firmly on Fianna Fail in the south.

In effect Ahern now knows that every time his government moves to shore up
the Sinn Fein position in the peace talks, he will be helping a party which
may well ...

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