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Come on Arlene: An Interview with Arlene Foster

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The Unionism's Decision Not to Vote for the Good Friday Agreement

I think they won on the constitutional issue. I don't think we won on the moral issues of allowing prisoners who committed some of the most senior crimes to walk free. So if you do something that you think at the time is worth it in Verde Comas, it's only worth it if those people who have been led out don't go on to try and continue to justify what they did during those years. And that's what's happening, Tom. We have members of parliament from Sinn Féin going down to events to commemorate and celebrate so-called volunteers who have out murdered their neighbors. So it wasn't worth it then, in a way. It was good for union

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