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Sinn Fein's discomfiting rite of passage
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| Contributor | New Jerusalem |
| Last Edited | New Jerusalem Mar 10, 2009 12:58pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, March 10, 2009 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The immediate back story to the killing of two Royal Engineers at Massereene Barracks in Antrim - now claimed by the Real (as opposed to the Provisional) IRA - is what makes the story politically and it is personally tragic for those directly involved.
This organisation is the same one responsible for the deaths in the Omagh bombing of 1998. That it has taken them nearly eleven years to reform and take action is due to a number of factors. Public revulsion - the victims numbered nine children, a woman pregnant with twins amongst them - probably being a significant, if not the decisive factor.
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As Anthony McIntrye notes, the dissidents have too long a road to travel to realise anything like success:
It will not kick start any campaign on the scale of the failed Provisional IRA armed venture. And if that failed in circumstances that were arguably more propitious for success than those of today, then there is no chance of current armed republican actions succeeding.
If anything it will help expedite yet another weary acceptance amongst Sinn Fein activists and the supporters that the revolution is over; and the realisation that they must embrace what they have de facto become: political defenders of the British state monopoly of force in Ireland.
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