A Good Evening Ulster report on the nationalist and
republican responses to the forthcoming by-elections in Northern Ireland
following the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement and the mass resignation of
Unionist MPs. Eddy McGrady, himself a future SDLP MP, rules out any kind of
electoral pact with Sinn Fein to maximise the anti-Unionist vote on the grounds
that they couldn't collaborate with any party condoning violence.
Gerry Adams is also
interviewed, giving the Sinn Fein position that the SDLP are collaborating with
Unionism and the British government and looking for an excuse to return to the
Northern Ireland Assembly. The SDLP response to the Agreement had been one of
cautious welcome whereas Sinn Fein had rejected it for not furthering the
concept of a United Ireland.