Northern Ireland takes step to power sharing
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Northern Ireland took a step toward restoring a government shared between Protestants and Catholics as it counted votes on Thursday from an election for a new provincial assembly.
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A hugely ambitious blueprint for a new era in Northern Ireland - in which Irish republicans would sit in government with the Rev Ian Paisley - was put on show in Belfast yesterday as the deal that almost was.
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Electoral officials were counting ballots Thursday to find out which Protestant and Catholic parties will control the Northern Ireland Assembly &#151; and hold the key to revived power-sharing in this British territory.
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Ian Paisley is almost certain to sign a historic agreement that would see his Democratic Unionists sharing power in Ulster with Sinn Fein.
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DUBLIN, Nov 24  - Northern Ireland's feuding political parties meet on Friday to take what London and Dublin hope will be a critical step towards restoring self-government in the British-ruled province.
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Vote-counting was to begin Thursday in the Northern Irish Assembly elections, which London and Dublin hope will spark a lasting power-sharing administration between Protestants and Catholics.
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It is a moment of decision in the Northern Ireland political process, Prime Minister Tony Blair has said.
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Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has recommended his party should accept the British-Irish proposals to revive power-sharing. He made the comments to senior party members in Belfast on Monday.
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The British governmentâs recognition of the Ulster Defence Associationâs ceasefire officially came into effect today. It came hours after the UDA, Northern Irelandâs largest loyalist paramilitary group
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TONY Blair yesterday kicked off a new bid to break the Northern Ireland deadlock, saying the &#39;moment of decision&#39; had arrived.
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Northern Ireland lawmakers are gaining a role in the parliament of the Republic of Ireland for the first time since the island's partition 86 years ago.The government of Prime Minister Bertie Ahern announced Tuesday it will create a new parliamentary committee that gives places to Northern Ireland lawmakers elected to seats in the British Parliament.The 18 lawmakers from the British territory will be permitted to take part in debates in a newly formed joint committee on the implementation of the Good Friday peace agreement. But they will not be permitted to vote or offer any amendments on legislative bills. Read more
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Sinn Fein's decision to begin cooperating with the Northern Ireland police has boosted peacemaking and made it more likely that Protestant hard-liner Ian Paisley will agree this month to share power, the chief negotiator for the IRA-allied Sinn Fein said Friday.
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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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Empey attacks on IRA arms issue. The British Government seems to be in the dark about what exactly the IRA will do to revive power-sharing in Northern Ireland, a senior Ulster Unionist claimed today.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern were meeting Northern Ireland's main Protestant and Catholic leaders as efforts intensified to seal a comprehensive power-sharing deal in the province.
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Northern Ireland&#39;s dominant Protestant and Roman Catholic political parties are holding talks aimed at restoring the British province&#39;s power-sharing government.
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Sinn Fein's move to support the police in Northern Ireland leaves unionists with no excuse to balk at power-sharing, Ulster Secretary Peter Hain has insisted.As he prepared to meet Irish premier Bertie Ahern ...Comment