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Posted: Tue Mar 27th, 2007 07:40 pm |
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Belfast, Northern Ireland:
The leaders of Northern Ireland's major Protestant and Catholic parties, sitting side by side for the first time in history, announced a breakthrough deal yesterday to forge a power-sharing administration May 8.
The agreement followed 4 1/2 years of deadlock and unprecedented face-to-face negotiations between the British Protestants of Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party and the Irish Catholics of Gerry Adams' Sinn Fein.
The two foes--who for years negotiated only through third parties at Paisley's insistence--sat beside each other at a table in the main dining room in Stormont Parliamentary Building in Belfast, largely avoiding eye contact. Officials said on both sides, they did not shake hands.
"We must not allow our justified loathing of the horrors and tradgedies of the past to become a barrier to creating a better and more stable future for our children", Paisley said. "In looking to that future, we must never forget those who have suffered during the dark period from which we are, please God, now emerging". Paisley said "We owe it them to craft the best possible future."
Adams, 58, a reputed veteran IRA commander said "Protestants and Catholics had been in conflict in northeast Ireland for centuries. "Now there's a new start, with the help of God". He said.
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Posted: Tue Mar 27th, 2007 08:31 pm |
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Since it is a violation of copyright to post a news story without stating the source, I have searched and found the original story. It is from the Associated Press and can be found in its entirety at Yahoo.
All are welcomed to post legitimate news stories in this topic area, but please include a reference to the original source, including a link if it is an online story. We cannot leave CHN liable for a lawsuit for plagairism.
Last edited on Tue Mar 27th, 2007 08:33 pm by CajunRick
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Posted: Tue Mar 27th, 2007 10:28 pm |
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| This was quoted today in The Boston Herald Newspaper. OK?
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Posted: Tue Mar 27th, 2007 10:45 pm |
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RCWarrior wrote: This was quoted today in The Boston Herald Newspaper. OK?
Thank you. The original source was the Associated Press, which deserves the attribution.
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Posted: Wed Mar 28th, 2007 08:30 am |
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Bono is from Ireland. Just FYI 
And did you know his wife's name is Ali? Huh, what a coincidence. 
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Posted: Wed Mar 28th, 2007 02:23 pm |
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Perhaps the boyos in Gaza could take some notes from Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams, smell their strong dark Arab coffee, and face facts. These tit for tat wars of "liberation" more often end up as family feuds with politics as a thin fig-leaf for justifying this kind of bloodshed.
We'll really know if this agreement holds if the Orange Order decides not to march through Catholic neighborhoods on the day when the Battle of the Boyne is celebrated by Protestant Unionists.
As if any damn day a victory by Oliver Cromwell merits any celebration of any kind.
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That'd be like Southerners hailing General Sherman's birthday, only with Cromwell the wreckage and carnage was even worse. However, it must be said in General Billy's favor that at least he used the means of war to force an end to war, not for religious and ethnic cleansing like Cromwell did so liberally in England, and especially Ireland.
We Irish are much like the Vatican bureaucrats: we think in centuries.
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