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18/04/2011
Sinn Fein Want Unity Poll
Sinn Fein's manifesto for the coming Assembly elections in the North is proposing a referendum on a new all-Ireland constitution.
The republican party also wants people in Northern Ireland to be allowed to vote in Irish presidential elections.
It also calls for tax-varying and borrowing powers to be transferred from Westminster to Stormont, and cross-border tax harmonisation.
Meanwhile, a nervous Northern Ireland continued to be hit by security scares at the weekend.
With the terrorist bomb murder of a PSNI officer still just weeks past, nervous people have been reporting suspect items.
A controlled explosion was carried out at a church in Bangor, Co Down, on Saturday.
The security alert was put in place after a suspicious object was found at Towerview Crescent in the Ballymaconnell area. The item was later identified as a mini oxygen tank, the PSNI confirmed.
Meanwhile, a security alert in Crossgar - also Co Down - ended after a suspicious object was found behind a community centre.
The discovery was made by a member of the public in a car park at the Downpatrick Street premises, at about 7.30pm on Sunday. Army bomb squad officers examined the object, which was found to contain nothing untoward.
(BMcC/GK)
The republican party also wants people in Northern Ireland to be allowed to vote in Irish presidential elections.
It also calls for tax-varying and borrowing powers to be transferred from Westminster to Stormont, and cross-border tax harmonisation.
Meanwhile, a nervous Northern Ireland continued to be hit by security scares at the weekend.
With the terrorist bomb murder of a PSNI officer still just weeks past, nervous people have been reporting suspect items.
A controlled explosion was carried out at a church in Bangor, Co Down, on Saturday.
The security alert was put in place after a suspicious object was found at Towerview Crescent in the Ballymaconnell area. The item was later identified as a mini oxygen tank, the PSNI confirmed.
Meanwhile, a security alert in Crossgar - also Co Down - ended after a suspicious object was found behind a community centre.
The discovery was made by a member of the public in a car park at the Downpatrick Street premises, at about 7.30pm on Sunday. Army bomb squad officers examined the object, which was found to contain nothing untoward.
(BMcC/GK)
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