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Gerry Adams reaches out across the sectarian divide

TRADE unions welcomed Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams’s outreach to unionists yesterday — but challenged him to clarify his vision of a united Ireland.

Speaking at a Sinn Fein conference on the constitutional question in Belfast on Saturday, Mr Adams said a vote for unification could come in a “few short years” if unionist opposition to a new Ireland was “unlocked.”

The party president admitted that the recent UK general election, in which the DUP and Sinn Fein took all but one of the 18 seats in Northern Ireland, showed a “deep political schism.”

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