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Fri 08 Aug 2008DUP, Sinn Fein seek last word on 'the North'
The DUP and Sinn Féin today clashed after a Sinn Féin minister published a government document replacing all references to Northern Ireland with the preferred nationalist label “the North”.
DUP leader Peter Robinson accused Sinn Féin minister Conor Murphy of bad faith, but republicans dismissed the criticism and claimed it had more to do with internal unionist tensions.
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