Seeing a need for professional,
unbiased complete support for the new family Monique expanded her practice to include partnerships with social workers with a special interest in perinatal mood disorders.
The U-turn was sold to the party membership at the ard fheis by the Sinn Fein leadership, on the basis that the police force in particular had undergone a
complete transformation at its behest: an allegedly biased police force, perceived as being drawn mainly from one section of the divided society in Northern Ireland — the Protestant / unionist majority tradition — would now be more representative and include a higher proportion of members of the minority community — the Catholic / nationalist / republican tradition — and be regarded by that community as more inclusive, fairer and
unbiased, to command loyalty and
support.