Reply #68: the chorus is underway --- they want Sinn Fein out ... [View All]

... remember this is all about Sinn Fein and not the IRA.

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2005/0111/breaking61.htm

Unionist stance on robbery 'entirely reasonable' - Murphy
By Patrick Logue Last updated: 11-01-05, 16:57

Northern Secretary Paul Murphy has said it is "entirely reasonable" for unionists to refuse to co-operate with Sinn Féin following the £26.5 million sterling Northern Bank robbery that has been blamed on the IRA.

In a statement on the robbery to the House of Commons in London, Mr Murphy said the British government would only promote a power-sharing deal "if the Provisional IRA not only gives up terrorism but also all the other forms of criminality in which it is implicated.

"Unionists in Northern Ireland have made clear that if those tests are met, they will work with Sinn Féin in a power-sharing executive," Mr Murphy said.

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Speaking in London following Mr Murphy's remarks, Sinn Féin national chairperson Mr Mitchel McLaughlin said Sinn Féin would stan over its record in the peace process and that the party would not take lectures from from any British government on criminality.

"Furthermore Sinn Féin will not take lectures from any British government on criminality when successive British governments engaged in a policy of state sanctioned murder against the nationalist community through their control and direction of the unionist death squads. The current British government of which Paul Murphy is part continues to cover-up this activity."