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By John Derbyshire

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February 29, 2004 4:37 PM

The indispensable Kevin Myers on what a disaster Tony Blair has been for

Northern Ireland.

(N.B. To get that joke in the penultimate paragraph, you need to know that

Portadown is a city in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, while Port-au-Prince

is the capital of Haiti.)

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