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Jim Fitzpatrick left me gold fishing at the start of Stormont Live this afternoon when he asked me about our politicians in the States and the criticism Gerry Adams had faced of not being inclusive. A confession - the story about the West Belfast MP attending a men only club in Boston had quite passed me by. I felt like George Bush facing a pop quiz on who the leader of Pakistan was when he was on the campaign trail - groping hopelessly for the right answer. But by the end of the programme I'd belatedly done my homework catching up on the Sinn Fein President's visit to the
Mr Adams has welcomed today's arguing that it contains "interesting conclusions that show that many unionists no longer fear the prospect of Irish unity or are as against it as was once the case". Conversely Jeffrey Donaldson has taken heart from the suggestion that 26% of Catholics would vote to stay in the UK, expressing the hope that they will "vote for the Union at election contests. Nationalism is a failed ideology unlikely to deliver: more and more people from a Catholic background are coming to recognise that." So the pollsters appear to have proved that it is possible to please both sides at once.
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