Identity crisis leaves party more Armalite than Armani

Sinn Féin is coming under increased pressure to get off the fence, says Political Editor Harry McGee.

AS you'd expect, the programme for this weekend's Sinn Féin Árd Fheis leans heavily on the native tongue. "Clár agus Rúin" it proclaims on the covering page in large lettering.

The conventional translation for this is 'Programme and Motions'. But many Irish words have multiple meanings and these ones throw up a second very different reading: 'Programme and Secrets'.