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Gerry Adams wins Northern Ireland vote
Associated Press ^ | 03/07/06

Posted on 03/08/2007 2:16:22 PM PST by presidio9

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was re-elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly as Sinn Fein appeared on course to remain the major Catholic-backed party in the British territory, according to results Thursday.

Adams, 58, topped the voting in his longtime power base of Catholic west Belfast. He was among the first declared winners for the 108-member assembly following Wednesday's election to find out which Protestant and Catholic parties will control the assembly and hold the key to revived power-sharing in the territory.

Sinn Fein activists cheered wildly in the major ballot-counting center, the King's Hall conference center in south Belfast, as Adams took the winner's podium. Nearby activists from Protestant parties booed or stood stony-faced.

The vote-counting is likely to take two days before all winners are declared. Northern Ireland's complex system of proportional representation allows voters to pick candidates in order of preference, requiring ballots to be counted several times.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gerryadams; ira; sinnfein
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

Thats still no right to call some one a awful name like that


61 posted on 03/08/2007 3:22:43 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade (Charge'em Both Ways)
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To: countreegurl; Colosis; Black Line; Cucullain; SomeguyfromIreland; Youngblood; Fergal; Cian; ...
I SAID APOLOGISE FOR YOUR FALSE ACCUSATION AGAINST ME IMMEDIATELY!!! I AM A CATHOLIC IN COUNTY MAYO

THIS IS NOT NEGOTIABLE!!!

62 posted on 03/08/2007 3:22:54 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (Apathy is one of the most dangerous ideologies in existence!)
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To: StoneWall Brigade

I'll call IRA apologists any name I feel like.


63 posted on 03/08/2007 3:23:50 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (Apathy is one of the most dangerous ideologies in existence!)
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To: countreegurl
The bs meter just jumped off the chart.

I can vouch for him. No real Catholic would support the IRA, that's why they are so despised in the Republic. They are a bunch of drug dealing, Stalinist, mobster wanna-be thugs. There are thugs on the other side too, but none are worse than the Ra. There are good people on both sides too, but none of them want anything to do with Adams. If he and Sinn Fein went away, Catholics would still be a voting block, but they wouldn't be intimidated into supporting a terrorist party or risk having their demographic split.

BTW, I am involved in a charity that brings Catholic and Protestant kids from Belfast to this country to spend a summer together. When polled, 70% of these kids say that the first time the have actually MET a member of the other faith was through this program.

64 posted on 03/08/2007 3:26:18 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: countreegurl

Profanity in any language is not welcome at FR.


65 posted on 03/08/2007 3:27:02 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

I SAID APOLOGISE FOR YOUR FALSE ACCUSATION AGAINST ME IMMEDIATELY!!! I AM A CATHOLIC IN COUNTY MAYO

THIS IS NOT NEGOTIABLE!!!




Get over yourself paddy - it takes two parties to have a negotiation, but it takes just one to wanker away.

You're on your own.

I'm out.


Erin go braugh!


66 posted on 03/08/2007 3:28:57 PM PST by countreegurl
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To: Admin Moderator; countreegurl; Colosis; Black Line; Cucullain; SomeguyfromIreland; Youngblood; ...

Yeah, removed my post, countreegurl's slander against me still allowed to stand, though.

This is a conservative website, pro-IRA posters should not be here.


67 posted on 03/08/2007 3:29:40 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (Apathy is one of the most dangerous ideologies in existence!)
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To: countreegurl; Irish_Thatcherite
Knock it off both of you.
68 posted on 03/08/2007 3:30:36 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: countreegurl

How the hell would you know this? I happen to know that he IS Catholic and DOES live in the Republic.

You have no business spouting this crap on this website.


69 posted on 03/08/2007 3:31:20 PM PST by RockinRight (My wish for Islam - The Glass Parking Lot Formerly Known As The Middle East.)
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

Don't take it personally. You should know by now that Catholicism is about as popular on FR as it is in John Edward's campaign headquarters.


70 posted on 03/08/2007 3:31:23 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: Admin Moderator; Colosis; Black Line; Cucullain; SomeguyfromIreland; Youngblood; Fergal; Cian; ...

Sure, take the IRA apologist's side.. as usual!

She owes me an apology for slandering me!


71 posted on 03/08/2007 3:32:30 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (Apathy is one of the most dangerous ideologies in existence!)
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To: RockinRight

Thanks! :)


72 posted on 03/08/2007 3:33:14 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (Apathy is one of the most dangerous ideologies in existence!)
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To: presidio9

I'm thinking you're right!


73 posted on 03/08/2007 3:33:59 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (Apathy is one of the most dangerous ideologies in existence!)
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

Stay clam!


74 posted on 03/08/2007 3:35:26 PM PST by Tax-chick (Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.)
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

I agree, I can't understand how anyone could support the IRA. They are an evil terrorist organization in bed with the PLO and assorted terror groups.


75 posted on 03/08/2007 3:36:07 PM PST by MBB1984
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To: Natchez Hawk

I suppose since Hitler was "chosen" and the Iranian leadership was "chosen" that they're not terrorists either?


76 posted on 03/08/2007 3:37:04 PM PST by RockinRight (My wish for Islam - The Glass Parking Lot Formerly Known As The Middle East.)
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To: Irish_Thatcherite
I guess a lot of folks don't seem to mind that it was the modern IRA that played a major roll in first teaching our jihadist enemies the fundamentals of terror bombing. The modern IRA maintained an almost permanent cadre of instructors in the training camps funded by the Soviets for over 30 years.

A fine Irish tradition to celebrate.

77 posted on 03/08/2007 3:37:49 PM PST by CWOJackson
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To: MBB1984

I know, in some minds the IRA are somehow different.

They don't realise that the IRA could run circles around AQ!


78 posted on 03/08/2007 3:39:15 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (Apathy is one of the most dangerous ideologies in existence!)
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

No problem.


79 posted on 03/08/2007 3:39:39 PM PST by RockinRight (My wish for Islam - The Glass Parking Lot Formerly Known As The Middle East.)
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

I understand the IRA are scum but name calling won't get you anywhere


80 posted on 03/08/2007 3:40:15 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade (Charge'em Both Ways)
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