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Adams and the Afrikaners

Mark Devenport | 17:21 UK time, Thursday, 13 November 2008

Unlike Fr. Reid he didn't use the "Nazi" word, but Gerry Adams has stirred the pot by talking about the "Afrikaner wing of unionism". He told US supporters at a New York fund raiser that "few human beings of my acquaintance are as petty and mean-spirited and
negative as those in the Afrikaner wing of unionism."

Remember this is on the eve of a DUP Executive meeting at which those alleged "Afrikaners" are due to be briefed on the latest state of the negotiations inside Stormont Castle.

The DUP's Robin Newton has countered by accusing the Sinn Fein President of indulging in a "hopelessly sectarian outburst, which bears no semblance to reality."

Now, as I was saying earlier, the mood music inside the Castle WAS improving recently...

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