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Gerry Adams was on stage as a guest of New York's Transport Workers Union explaining how comfortable he feels in America, when one of the myriad orange, green and white balloons festooning the hall popped with a loud bang. "That', he said without pause, ''also makes me feel at home''.

It was a joke that drew easy laughter from his audience, Irish-American members of the union who had gathered for an annual dinner to honour two fathers of the Irish republican movement, James Connolly and Michael Quill.

Already, they had given Mr Adams, as president of Sinn Fein, a standing ovation as he had entered the room accompanied by strains of marching bagpipes and drums.

The recent allegations that Sinn Fein turned a blind eye to violence and crime committed by the IRA, the heist at the Northern Ireland bank, and the murder in a bar of Robert McCartney has not given Mr Adams any cause to celebrate. Worse, his annual St Patrick's Day week in America has been eclipsed.



But Mr Adams vowed to fulfil the promise that most Irish Americans love to hear, the unification of North and South.

Is he telling them the war is not over, and the IRA has not gone away........



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I hope to see a united socialist Ireland someday.
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas millionaires, or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid." [font=Arial Narrow][/font]

President Dwight D. Eisenhower Nov. 08, 1954
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David813 wrote: I hope to see a united socialist Ireland someday.Don't ya know that the Berlin Wall came down in 1989.
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postedbydavid123

I hope to see a united socialist Ireland someday.


Interesting comment. Do you also look forward to a united socialist america as well?
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Most assuredly!
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas millionaires, or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid." [font=Arial Narrow][/font]

President Dwight D. Eisenhower Nov. 08, 1954
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