“Can Sinn Féin do better?”

Rather than the Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams, using “this blog” to call on “the media” to allow “a cross cutting debate on the [bread and butter] issues that are important to citizens” in this election, perhaps he should have a quiet word in the shell-like of his former comrade-in-arms associate in North Belfast, Gerry “the only candidate in the field who can win the Westminster seat for nationalism” Kelly. But does Gerry Adams really want his record on those issues to be at the centre of his campaign? As for his question to unionists – “What have the Romans has the union ever done delivered for us you?” Well, it is his favourite film…

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