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Article: SINN FEIN LEADERS BANK ON US FUNDS MONEY FROM ABROAD ANGERS RIVAL PARTIES
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 27, 2002
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DUBLIN - In pockets of poverty where Ireland's boom barely echoes,
Sinn Fein political posters are still plastered everywhere, promising
economic equality, a united Ireland, better health care, and a hard
line on drug dealers.
In the national election last week, Sinn Fein's message resonated
here, taking it from just one seat in Parliament to five and making
it a force to reckon with as Prime Minister Bertie Ahern assembles
his new coalition government after being reelected last week.
With their history of unyielding republicanism and their modern
transformation into the political force behind the historic Good
Friday peace agreement, Sinn Fein leaders who in the past may have
focused more ...