Shinners

We'll have none of this mumbo jumbo about applying for the Chiltern Hundreds, just a manly resignation letter, say the Shinners who despise Westminster's "strange men in tights" more than they do men in balaclavas.

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Maybe by the autumn we'll see the Shinners leapfrogging FF.

Two views of social democracy Johnny Guitar 2009

Maybe by the autumn we'll see the Shinners leapfrogging FF.

Archive 2009-02-01 Johnny Guitar 2009

The organisation to which Minihan and some other discontented Shinners are moving towards, éirígí all lower case by the way, is a peculiar little beast.

Archive 2009-08-01 Johnny Guitar 2009

That rule must be upheld regardless of whether the people in question are Fianna Failers, Blueshirts, Shinners or Stickies.

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Yet as loathsome as I happen to find the Shinners even more detestable must surely be the current band of malcontents to have emerged from the party in recent weeks airing their frustration with the present path being trodden by the Adams-McGuinness leadership.

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Of course, there is a third scenario whereby everything goes swimmingly for the Shinners and they manage to avoid any disagreeable developments.

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Another decade passed before the 32 County Sovereignty Movement, a miniscule inconsequential pressure group that following the bombing of Omagh could never be mentioned in the media without the words 'the political wing of the Real IRA' accompanying it, was formed by a group of disgruntled Shinners peeved off by their leadership's acceptance of the Mitchell Principles.

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If violence breaks out at next Sunday's event it will not matter whether the Shinners have been involved in it or not, the fact is they will be there.

Archive 2008-10-01 Johnny Guitar 2008

If violence breaks out at next Sunday's event it will not matter whether the Shinners have been involved in it or not, the fact is they will be there.

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