IRA missed its chance?

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I am not quite sure I buy Brian Feeney’s logic that David Trimble’s democratic mandate is any more fraudulent than any of the other politicians whose mandates ran out last week, but he has a point here (sub needed):

The reason unionists have escaped blame for this state of affairs was laid out a couple of months ago by Fianna Fail Senator Martin Mansergh when he said words to the effect that republicans were providing unionists with their only pretext for refusing to participate in a northern administration. If the IRA army council had taken the initiative with a forthright statement from P O�Neill a couple of months ago they would have whipped away Trimble�s fraudulent democratic credentials.

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