{"id":314735,"date":"2025-08-03T14:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T14:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314735\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T14:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T14:12:13","slug":"sam-mcbride-the-unlikely-slogan-sinn-fein-soon-might-be-using-keep-northern-ireland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314735\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam McBride: The unlikely slogan Sinn F\u00e9in soon might be using: Keep Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Party once vowed to smash northern parliament, now it is warming to idea of keeping it devolved in new unity strategy\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gerry Adams and Sinn F\u00e9in colleague Francie Molloy in Crossmaglen in 1994.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754230333_643_1e2c4922-fa0f-462e-b660-833f033df240.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Gerry Adams and Sinn F\u00e9in colleague Francie Molloy in Crossmaglen in 1994.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There was a time when Sinn F\u00e9in campaigned under the slogans \u2018No Return to Stormont\u2019 and \u2018Smash Stormont\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Increasingly, modern Sinn F\u00e9in is inching towards a once-unthinkable slogan: Keep Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Party once vowed to smash northern parliament, now it is warming to idea of keeping it devolved in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[61928,28985,114422,22306,1144,6410,11528,6568,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-314735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-border-poll","9":"tag-caoimhe-archibald","10":"tag-francie-molloy","11":"tag-ira","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-sam-mcbride","14":"tag-sinn-fein","15":"tag-the-troubles","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114965246370822924","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}