Ireland - In your last post you said that "So if the GFA is as important to SF as they say it is they have to start working with Trimble and other pro GFA unionist." I suppose that is why The S.F. mayor Alex Maskey is inundated with offers from unionists to serve as Deputy Minister ?. S.F. as pointed out by otrhers is the only party that has been bending over bacjkwards to make the GFA work. They have been stymied time and again by allegationss and dirty politics from all unionist parties (including Trimble). You are right when you say they(S.F) have a lot to offer, but don't you think as democratically elected representatives ( they are the largest nationalist party by the way). they should have had more acceptance from all parties. The bottom line is that many Unionists politicians do not want the GFA to work, period. They somehow feel that if they can bring down the power sharing executive things will magically resort to what they have had since the so-called protestant state for a protestant people was set up. That is not going to happen - period. The I.R.A. has adhered to cessation in the face of amost daily occurances aimed at making them break. Do you really think the I.R.A. will give up the weapons and disband and leave the way clear for gangs of armed loyalist bigots to come into catholic districts to engage in murder and mayhem. knowing that they will for the most part get away with it as they have done in the past, the same way that Police Sergeant Dixon and his cohorts in the Cromwell clubs did in the 1920's and 30's. Sinn Fein are here to stay - live with it.