EVEN THE CO-CONSPIRATORS ARE BAILING:

Adams brushes off snub by Kennedy over IRA deeds (Warren Hoge, March 15, 2005, The New York Times)

Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Fein, arrived in New York on Monday on his annual St. Patrick's Day trip to the United States and played down a White House snub only to face a new and potentially more damaging one - from Senator Edward Kennedy, the Irish party's most prominent supporter in American politics.