REPORT – The former political showcase of the IRA paramilitaries has carved out government party clothes, to the point of overtaking the Democratic Unionist Party in the polls.
Special envoy to Belfast
John Finucane carries in his blood the tears of Northern Ireland. Her mother grew up in a unionist neighborhood and her father was raised in a nationalist area. Above all, on a bad day in February 1989, the latter, a prominent civil rights lawyer, was shot dead by loyalist paramilitaries in front of young John in the family home. Of this, the one who is an MP for Westminster (without sitting however) and campaign manager of Sinn Féin for the election of the local Parliament of Stormont on Thursday, however does not speak. John Finucane prefers to look ahead, while the Republican Party could for the first time in a century come out on top. A political earthquake for the loyalists.
Lawyer like his murdered father, John Finucane is easy to talk about. In his small office in North Belfast, this 42-year-old man, a rising figure in the party, unfolds the new creed of Sinn Féin. Far from emphasizing the reunification of the island, the nationalist formation…
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