After the Ard Fheis

Several things seem to be emerging from Sinn Fein’s Ard Fheis over the weekend. If the party agrees to join the policing board, it won’t be until after the elections on 29th May.

The party seems upbeat about the prospects for the re-introduction of devolved institutions, but as yet there no concrete indication of how the IRA will intrepret the term acts of completion, as laid down in Blair’s speech of October last year.


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