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Thu 06 Jun 2004Sinn Fein to discuss joining Socialist group in EuropeSinn Féin has requested a meeting with the secretary general of the Socialist group in the European Parliament to discuss the possibility of the party's two newly-elected MEPs, Ms Mary Lou McDonald and Ms Bairbre De Brún, joining the group.Sinn Féin's chairman, Mr Mitchel McLaughlin and the party's international director, Ms Joan O'Connor, were in Brussels yesterday, and a party spokesman said the Socialists were one of a number of groups Sinn Féin was consulting. "The plan was to speak to a number of groups," the spokesman said.