A former voice of violence hopes to enter Ireland’s government

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A former voice of violence hopes to enter Ireland’s government
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The big parties say no, for now

leaders of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army , the route to power was smooth in the end. All they had to do was give up the armed struggle, tack left of centre and exploit popular resentment of fiscal austerity after the biggest crash in history.

Instead, local elections held last month delivered a stinging rebuke to Sinn Fein, which lost 78 seats on county and city councils, nearly half of its total. It had hoped to get a bounce by selecting as leader last year Mary Lou McDonald, a personable and youngish Dubliner, to replace the ageing, Belfast-born Gerry Adams, once a full-throated apologist for violence. That did not work.

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