Article: LAUGHING PEACE MEN; A DAY OF HISTORY FOR NORTHERN IRELAND After 38 years and 3,500 dead, bitter enemies unite ..and Blair has his triumph.(News)

Byline: ROSA PRINCE, Political Correspondent, in Belfast

ONCE they were sworn enemies who shared only a mutual loathing - and a refusal to compromise that stoked Northern Ireland's sectarian hatred to boiling point.

But yesterday Democratic Unionist leader the Rev Ian Paisley and former IRA chief Martin McGuinness stood laughing side by side and pledged to usher in an new era of peace by working together to govern for the benefit of all.

As a beaming Tony Blair watched from Stormont's public gallery, first Paisley was sworn in as Northern Ireland's First Minister. ...

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