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.
Thats still no right to call some one a awful name like that
THIS IS NOT NEGOTIABLE!!!
I'll call IRA apologists any name I feel like.
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.
Profanity in any language is not welcome at FR.
I SAID APOLOGISE FOR YOUR FALSE ACCUSATION AGAINST ME IMMEDIATELY!!! I AM A CATHOLIC IN COUNTY MAYO
THIS IS NOT NEGOTIABLE!!!
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.
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.
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.
Sure, take the IRA apologist's side.. as usual!
She owes me an apology for slandering me!
Thanks! :)
I'm thinking you're right!
Stay clam!
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.
I suppose since Hitler was "chosen" and the Iranian leadership was "chosen" that they're not terrorists either?
A fine Irish tradition to celebrate.
I know, in some minds the IRA are somehow different.
They don't realise that the IRA could run circles around AQ!
No problem.
I understand the IRA are scum but name calling won't get you anywhere
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