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Article: SINN FEIN IS KEEPING ALIVE ITS FIGHT TO REMAIN IN TALKS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 19, 1998
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DUBLIN -- Sinn Fein kept its improbable fight against
expulsion from the Northern Ireland peace talks alive yesterday
after its lawyer told a judge here it would be a violation of
"natural justice" to throw the party out.
Justice Frederick Morris, head of the High Court, adjourned
the case for more arguments today after hearing Sinn Fein's lawyer
contend that attempts to expel it are legally flawed and that the
party is separate and distinct from the Irish Republican Army and
cannot be held responsible for IRA violence.
The British and Irish governments say Sinn Fein has violated
the rules governing the parties taking part in the peace talks
because the IRA is suspected of killing two men in ...