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16 December 2004 Edition

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An Phoblacht's Christmas quiz answers

1) Ian Paisley's sidekick, the DUP's Peter Robinson - the former Roads Minister! Robbo's criminal act involved cutting off traffic on Belfast's Albertbridge Road for a loyalist street party. The magistrate said she "reluctantly" convicted him... and gave him an absolute discharge!

2) George Hamilton

3) Inter Milan

4) She was an undercover MI6 agent in Ireland against republicans.

5) Ulster Unionist MP for South Belfast, Martin Smyth, leading member of the Orange Order.

6) In the film, Bloody Sunday. Mann played Parachute Regiment Colonel Derek Wilford. Mann also freelanced as right-hand man to SAS boss General Sir Peter de la Billiére during the Gulf War.

7) Colonel Muammar Gadaffi's security team of striking Arab women dressed in smart blue camouflage fatigues.

8) Conor Cruise O'Brien, notorious when a Communications Minister for his J Edgar Hoover-style zealous enforcement of state censorship and keeping files on letter writers to the press critical of the government. He has rejoined the 26-County Labour Party near his Howth home straight after leaving Robert McCartney's UK Unionist Party - there's little difference and the Cruiser doesn't have so far to travel for meetings.

9) Emmerdale

10) Girls Aloud

11) The Pretenders - no pretending by Chrissie Hynde.

12) The Dublin Government's referendum rewriting the citizenship laws.

13) She joined the star-studded animal rights campaign group, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), in campaigning for the British Army's elite Guards regiments to find a synthetic replacement for the Canadian bear fur they use in their bearskin busby headgear.

14) Fianna Fáil's Mary Hanafin - the new Education Minister.

15) Armed Forces Minister.

16) Devil worship - Satanism in now an official religion in the British armed forces.

17) Catholic Primate of All Ireland, Archbishop Seán Brady.

18) Head of the RUC/PSNI Special Branch in Belfast.

19) Germ warfare suicide pigeons.

20) Their in-station sauna.


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