DISSIDENTS SET FIRE TO SF OFFICES; Sands poll picture burned.Byline: MICHAEL McHUGH Michael Hudson McHugh, AC QC, (born 1935) is a former justice of the High Court of Australia; the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy. Judicial Activity A SINN Fein Sinn Fein n. An Irish political and cultural society founded about 1905 to promote political and economic independence from England, unification of Ireland, and a renewal of Irish culture. constituency office has been attacked by dissident republican arsonists. Smoke and electrical damage was caused after petrol was poured through the front door of the premises in Derry and set alight. The Real IRA is due to hold a ceremony in the city today claiming responsibility for murdering Sinn Fein former Stormont administration head and British spy Denis Donaldson Denis Martin Donaldson (Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1950 – April 4, 2006 in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland) was a volunteer within the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and a member of Sinn Féin who was exposed in December 2005 as an informer in the employment of in 2006. The West Belfast man was shot dead in a remote Co Donegal cottage and his death rocked the peace process. The arson incident happened overnight at the unit at Rathmore shopping centre in the Creggan after the vandals cut through metal shutters. Derry Sinn Fein chairman Paul Fleming Paul Fleming (October 5, 1609-April 2, 1640) was a German poet. He was born Hartenstein, in Vogtland, Saxony, and received first medical training at the University of Leipzig and his medical doctorate at Hamburg. said: "If those who carried out this attack think they were striking a blow for Irish freedom then they are deluding themselves. "I can best describe them as no better than counter-insurgency groups that are heavily infiltrated and controlled by British intelligence services." He added they destroyed pictures of hunger striker Bobby Sands' election victory announcement, portraits of other hunger strikers and republican memorabilia. Mr Fleming added: "It is becoming clearer after every action carried out by these enemies of the peace process that their main target is not British rule in Ireland but Sinn SINN Sonically Induced Narrowing of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra of Solids Fein's success in dismantling the influence of the British Government in Irish affairs. "Sinn Fein has a clear strategy to achieve Irish unity and it has been endorsed by increasing numbers of genuine republicans and nationalists in successive elections throughout Ireland. "These impostors will not deter us from our agenda. This attack will not deter Sinn Fein from carrying out its constituency service and the centre will be open for business as usual after the Easter holiday." In a speech to republicans at Belfast's Milltown Cemetery Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams said: "I uphold the right of everyone to dissent from Sinn Fein's point of view. "But no one is entitled to hijack our proud republican history and abuse it for narrow selfish interests. "Sinn Fein set ourselves firmly against those elements who do this." He added there was no going back to the old days of "sectarian domination and two-tier citizenship". |
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