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Nigel Farage takes aim at Gerry Adams over Sinn Féin's Brexit approach

Sinn Féin voted to back the Remain campaign. Farage thinks they’ve sold out.

BREXIT CAMPAIGNER AND former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has taken aim at Sinn Féin, in particular Gerry Adams, over the party’s approach to the referendum.

“I remember the Nice Treaty, which Ireland rejected and I remember the Lisbon Treaty which Ireland rejected just over ten years ago,” Farage told TV3′s Agenda today.

“And I remember Gerry Adams of Sinn Féin saying in both of those referendums – we didn’t fight the British for 500 years to have Ireland governed by the EU.

“And I thought, I’m not a Gerry Adams supporter, but actually what he’s saying is completely and utterly logical. Irish nationalism actually made some sense.

“They wanted Ireland to be an independent self-governing democratic nation.

And Sinn Féin have completely sold out to the EU. Now whether it’s to do with money or what reasoning it is, I don’t know.

Sinn Féin campaigned to remain in the European Union, and the party called for a border poll back in June after results showed a majority in Northern Ireland had in fact voted to remain in the EU.

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Last month, Adams told the annual Friends of Sinn Féin dinner in New York that the Brexit process posed a danger to the peace process and to constitutional arrangements fundamental to the Good Friday Agreement – one of the landmark deals of the process.

“The choice is simple,” he said. “Acquiesce to the demands of London and allow the North to be dragged out of the EU, at the whim of an English government, or pursue the credible path to argue at European level and with the British government for the North to be designated a special status within the EU.”

Adams said an ongoing process could end partition on the island of Ireland.

“Just as there are massive challenges, there is also the opportunity to plot a new course forward; a course that will end the partition of our island.

“The British government is now obliged to legislate for Irish unity if a majority wants that. The duty of the Irish government should be to achieve this. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

If it was, it would mean promoting all-Ireland co-operation and building relationships between our people. It would mean an end to partitionist thinking by policy makers and in the media also. It would mean enlisting international support for all of these objectives.

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    Mute Ned Flanders
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    Sep 18th 2018, 9:48 PM

    Went today. Its great craic and well worth a trip out. The Garda have done a great job with traffic in the area too.

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    Sep 18th 2018, 10:52 PM

    @Ned Flanders: of all the ploughing matches I went to over the years I have to say screggan tullamore is by far the best area to hold the event. So easy to get there and get back from. No delays , very well managed by the Gardai . And very Central for people to travel. Should be held there every year I think.

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    Sep 18th 2018, 11:02 PM

    @Finbarr Lucey: couldn’t agree more. Especially after the disaster that was New Ross.

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    Sep 18th 2018, 11:25 PM

    @Bilbo Baggins: and castlemartyr

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    Sep 18th 2018, 9:58 PM

    Should it last for four days to allow for issues like these and accommodate the vast crowds that want to attend…? has the ploughing out-grown 3 days?

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    Sep 18th 2018, 9:40 PM

    Going on Thursday so hopefully bit better weather.

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    Sep 18th 2018, 9:41 PM

    that’s the headline for all the papers tomorrow ..

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    Sep 18th 2018, 10:43 PM

    97,500 there today. Will it ever get to the stage where there are too many people on site?

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    Sep 19th 2018, 9:31 AM

    @Joe L: there 112,500 attended the first day last year, I was there on that day and yesterday, it’s very busy where the walkways intersect, but overall its ok

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    Sep 19th 2018, 7:17 AM

    Extending the show to a 4th day is a great idea. The traffic is always terrible so maybe that would ease things up a bit…

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    Sep 18th 2018, 10:18 PM

    Who got knocked out by a fart wind then..

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    Sep 19th 2018, 10:11 AM

    @James O’Brien: Feeling a bit thick now are you? Check out also the mounting damage and the death. Fool.

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    Sep 19th 2018, 8:22 AM

    Is plough judging so minutely calibrated that they had a concern that the wind might disrupt the pattern of soil on the top of the furrows to such a degree that the readings would be inaccurate?

    have no knowledge of this stuff, merely intrigued by rural matters…

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    Mute Paul Furey
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    Sep 19th 2018, 8:44 AM

    @DeFonz: try Google and learn a bit.

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