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posters were allowed to go up. But what was up faster than any James Geoghegan, Emma Blain, or Rory Hogan, or Hazel Chu poster in the leafy suburbs around the canal were the tents.
But within days of Mount Street being cleared another unofficial camp site sprang up on both sides of the Grand Canal between Mount Street Bridge and the Huband Bridge. Okay. Hands up. ‘Friendly’ rivalry between constituency colleagues is a regular occurrence in Irish politics. The two Moynihan clans in Cork North West, and Michael Smith and Michael O’Kennedy in North Tipp, had a very healthy dynamic between them.The Donegal Senator said Cowen’s comments were ill-judged. He added fuel to the first by saying he was “angered” that a Dáil deputy would suggest that, in the wake of the Belfast Agreement, “this in only a problem on one side of the border”.
But by solving one problem, he created another. The Belfast Agreement got rid of the Border between north and south. This is a cardinal issue for Sinn Féin and for all other supporters of the Belfast Agreement.
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