Over? This War Is Just Starting ; They Hate Brits but They Hate Sinn Fein Even More: And for All the Efforts to Portray Them As Isolated Thugs, This Chilling Dispatch From Craigavon Shows the Dissident Republicans Are Drawing On Growing Local Support [Eire Region]

Mail on Sunday › March 15, 2009

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WHEN heartbroken PSNI widow Kate Carroll spoke of her husband's death, few who heard her words could have been untouched by their poignant simplicity.

At his funeral on Friday, there were also promises that he would not be forgotten and vows by mourners and wellwishers that 'we cannot and will not lose the peace' because 'we've come so far'.

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Over? This War Is Just Starting ; They Hate Brits but They Hate Sinn Fein Even More: And for All the Efforts to Portray Them As Isolated Thugs, This Chilling Dispatch From Craigavon Shows the Dissident Republicans Are Drawing On Growing Local Support [Eire Region]

Strong sentiments - but they will have had little meaning for a section of society in the North whose lives have been barely touched by the peace process.

They are the Catholics living on just the sort of sink estates in Craigavon where PC Stephen Carroll lost his life.

Tellingly, not only do a growing number of them no longer hold Sinn Fein in any high regard but, astonishingly, they increasingly hate them as much as 'the Brits'.

Indeed, one former Provisional IRA member went as far ...

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