Article: Ex-foes stand united and cast aside years of hate Northern Ireland's new leaders clear the way for peace

IAN PAISLEY and Martin McGuinness, once the deadliest of enemies, stood shoulder to shoulder in Belfast.

They consigned generations of bitterness to history and cleared the way for a spectacular new era of peace and cooperation in Northern Ireland.

Nearly 10 years after the Good Friday peace agreement, Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Republic's Taoiseach Bertie Ahern sat in the VIP gallery and witnessed history as Mr Paisley, head of the Protestant Free Presbyterian Church and Mr McGuinness, a former IRA leader, pledged themselves to a future powersharing government.

On an occasion unlike any other inside Parliament Buildings, Stormont - high on drama and full of emotion - they officially ...

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