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Article: Brian Rowan: Sinn Fein chiefs need to keep horse before cart over policing The St Andrews plan has created a thorny issue for the republican leadership. And, as security expert Brian Rowan reports, Adams and McGuinness have only one opportunity to sell it to the rank and file
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- October 19, 2006
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Walking the route set out in that St Andrews road map just a few
short days ago was always going to take careful, thoughtful steps. We
knew that last Friday, when the talking in Scotland gave shape to a
potential new deal - a deal of the kind that could really end a very
long "war".It poses difficulties for the DUP's Ian Paisley as it does
for Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness. So, we shouldn't
be all that surprised that on the walk towards its March end - the
new deadline date for devolution - that there will be stumbling
moments, times when the politics and the politicians will lose their
footing.That is the context for Tuesday's postponement of the meeting
that was meant to ...