strategy has always been straightforward repression in the south as well as the north. Dublin has its own no-jury courts and one of the most of media censorship. in the Security operation is, of course, the core of the • Hillsborough agreement.
The second element was the idea that Dublin would guarantee and uphold the rights of the nationalist community the Six Counties more effectively Inall the cycle struggle since 1969 was, of course, the basis which the agreement wa. sold to the Irish people discredited by the since 25 January this year.
The favourite speculation in the Irish media today is that the openly antiropula Democrat Workers' Party herald th by-passing of the national question as the dominant question of Irish politics But, on the contrary, th SILIOS of Dublin's crawling to That cher in recent weeks is to aid a modest, but significant, advance of Sinn Fein in th • 26 counties. Precisely the opposite of what Thatcher Haughev have all been working for since 1981.
In Britain, one result is already clear, broader supsport for withdrawal from reland. The Irish Post, thi main newspaper of the Iris in has already British withdrawal. This is only the beginning.
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