Everything Ulster - Election 2005

IT sounds nuts doesn't it? With their long-standing position being that the Policing Board is just a mask for an unaccountable force for British occupation on the island of Ireland (or something like that). However, that's the story tucked away at the bottom of page 8 of today's Daily View (no website as yet) after it was hinted at in Gerry Adams's "Keynote speech" yesterday.

According to the Daily View, senior IRA members across Belfast have been told that Gerry Adams wants to 'move the process' forward by signing republicans up to the policing system and standing down IRA 'volunteers'. The paper goes on to claim that Adams's mid-Ulster cohort, Martin McGuinness has delivered a similar message to the IRA members in the north west of the province.

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Well what a day. First Gerry says he's got something important to tell us, then Big Ian tries to grab the limelight with another "Never, never, never" type speech (or to paraphrase: "We won't share power with terrorists and we really mean it this time").

Gerry had told us this morning there would be a "keynote speech" and people had been waiting all day to find out what it would be.

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