DUP top in NI assembly election
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Ian Paisley's DUP emerges as the largest party in Northern Ireland's Assembly election with 36 Stormont seats.
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Northern Ireland's biggest Protestant and Catholic parties were far ahead of rivals on Thursday in early results from assembly elections, as the province took a step toward restoring shared government.
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Fianna Fail leader Bertie Ahern is re-elected as taoiseach in the Irish Republic for a third term.
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Members of Ireland's Green Party voted on Wednesday on whether to back a deal that will see them enter government for the first time in return for handing a third term to prime minister and long-time rival Bertie Ahern.
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Northern Ireland's biggest Protestant and Catholic parties were far ahead of rivals, early results from assembly elections showed on Thursday, as the province took a step toward restoring shared government.
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The leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the largest Protestant party in Northern Ireland, is to hold his first political talks with Irish Prime Minster Bertie Ahern in Dublin later this week, party sources said.
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The assembly will hear if the DUP and Sinn Fein are to indicate choices for first and deputy first minister.
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Hard-liners dominated the early returns Thursday from an election to decide who will control the Northern Ireland Assembly _ and hold the key to revived power-sharing in this British territory.Comment
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The polar extremes of Northern Ireland politics have strengthened their grip on the province's legislature, ensuring they will control any future Catholic-Protestant administration, substantial election results ...Comment
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Hard-line Catholic and Protestant parties have won the bulk of seats decided so far in the election for a new legislative assembly in Northern Ireland, a vote designed to clear the way for creation of a new ...Comment
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Hard-liners raced ahead Thursday in an election to decide who will control the Northern Ireland Assembly _ and hold the key to revived power-sharing in this British territory.Comment
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Sinn Fein says decision time on a political resolution in Northern Ireland is fast approaching.
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Exit polls in Ireland's general election indicate PM Bertie Ahern's Fianna Fail leading with 41.6%.
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Irish deputies handed Prime Minister Bertie Ahern a third successive term on Thursday, putting him at the head of a government that will include the Green Party for the first time.
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Talks on the next vital phase of the Northern Ireland peace process were under way yesterday even before counting had concluded in the elections for the revived Belfast Assembly.Comment
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The NI parties and governments are to meet in an effort to conclude a deal to restore the assembly.
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Hardline Protestant and Catholic parties appeared set to capture a majority of seats in Northern Ireland's provincial assembly as final results were being counted Friday.