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Article: WORKING TOGETHER BUT STILL SPLIT ; Two years since Northern Ireland's power-sharing government was formed, Sinn Fein and DUP Assembly members share their differing opinions on what the future holds
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- Belfast Telegraph
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- May 4, 2009
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Northern Ireland's power-sharing government will reach a major
milestone this week when it marks its second anniversary.
And despite early fears that the coalition that includes hardline
unionists and former IRA members might not have survived, it will
pass the halfway point of the Assembly's four-year-term on Friday.
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams, who in 2007 brokered the
devolution deal with former DUP leader Ian Paisley, said the
Assembly is now the region's longest-running legislature since the
old Stormont regime collapsed in 1972 at the height of the Troubles.
Today, leading DUP Assembly member Nelson McCausland and Sinn
Fein MLA Raymond McCartney signalled that while they are ...