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Wed 05 May 2004Allister launches blistering attack on Sinn FeinDUP European campaign launch: The DUP candidate in the European Parliament election, Mr Jim Allister, has launched a blistering attack on Sinn Féin and its candidate, Ms Bairbre de Brún, and insisted that the central issue of this contest is whether he or Sinn Féin tops the poll.Mr Allister, in launching his party's manifesto yesterday, "unashamedly" acknowledged that he opposed the European Union and would happily see Britain and Northern Ireland withdraw from the EU were that feasible.