In an interview in May 26’s Belfast Telegraph, the Democratic Unionist Party candidate for the European Parliament, Diana Dodds, claimed “the DUP is preventing [Provisional] Sinn Fein from delivering on its manifesto by constantly frustrating and blocking the republican agenda.”
Dodds stated that “no reasonable or impartial person could seriously suggest that devolution has been beneficial to Republicanism.”
She said the Provisionals’ manifesto was long on promises, but had proved short on delivery, and that through devolution “we have brought the Sinn Fein agenda to a grinding halt.”
I consider myself a reasonable, though not impartial, person, but I agree with her assessment.
Devolution has made the prospect for a united, 32−county Ireland further away than perhaps ever. I do not understand how any Republican or nationalist can continue to support Provisional Sinn Fein.
Jane Enright
Woodside
