MPs and poll deal Sinn Féin dual blow

11 Mar 2005

Sinn Féin suffered double political discomfort yesterday as the government stripped the party of £440,000 of House of Commons allowances and a Northern Ireland opinion poll suggested its sustained electoral advance may have stalled. The survey, commissioned after the £26.5m Northern Bank robbery and the republicans’ self-inflicted crisis over the murder of Robert McCartney, revealed that almost half of Sinn Féin’s voters believe the IRA should now disband.Full Story

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