THE chaos surrounding the visit by French President Nicolas Sarkozy was, to my mind, compounded by the bizarre choice of representatives which Sinn Fein sent to meet him. The party's delegates to the meeting were Gerry Adams and Bairbre de Bruin -- both of whom are members of the Northern Assembly, and neither of whom had a vote in the recent referendum. Sinn Fein have been quick to condemn the influence of foreign governments in our ratification process, so why did they send members of a foreign legislature to meet with Mr Sarkozy, supposedly on our behalf? How can Mr Adams or Ms de Bruin relay the will of those who voted 'No' in the Lisbon referendum, when they do not represent a single person who cast a vote in it? The decision to send Mr Adams to have his three minutes with Mr Sarkozy seemed to have more to do with his...
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