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Letter: Speaker's ruling encourages IRA

Sir: If all candidates standing for parliamentary elections were required to take the oath of allegiance to the sovereign as they handed in their nomination papers, this would at a stroke solve the question of the status of Messrs Adams and McGuinness.

JOHN BURROWS

Leicester

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