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...Sinn Féin, the opposition party that is the most popular in Ireland according to polls, led calls for an immediate general election....
...How do his supporters think Sinn Féin would react to such a move? Let alone the European Commission and EU capitals?...
...The pandemic has presented an enormous health challenge to the recently restored power-sharing government led by the pro-British Democratic Unionists and Sinn Féin Irish nationalists....
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...With no overall victor in the election, months of wrangling will now ensue to decide on a government....
...The Democratic Unionist party is the largest party with 130 councillors overall, followed by Sinn Féin with 105....
...The county returning officer cut a straw in two and Lesley Rickerby, the Lib Dem candidate, was the victor....
...In Ireland, Sinn Féin has become the political victor of the austerity years, capturing a swath of urban working-class voters who once supported Fianna Fáil or the Labour party....
...International mediators, including Kofi Annan, former UN secretary-general, and Gerry Adams, president of the Irish party Sinn Féin, called on Eta to abandon violence in language copied almost word for word...
...The convenors included Kofi Annan, former UN secretary-general; Bertie Ahern, former Irish prime minister; Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Norwegian premier; Gerry Adams, president of the Irish party Sinn Féin...
...Pearse Doherty, the Glasgow-born Sinn Féin candidate, took 40 per cent of the first preference votes and was declared victor after four counts....
...The ruling means there is no chance for the moment of Eta reviving the “Irish Republican Army – Sinn Féin” model of a legal political party working in concert with an outlawed military wing....
...Victor Barker, whose 12-year-old son James was killed, said: “I never built my hopes up too much after what happened before, but I’m absolutely over the moon.”...
...As victor and vanquished came off the podium in May last year, Livingstone tells me, he gave Johnson some advice: “Don’t do anything quickly....
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