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Article: VOA NEWS: NEW POWER-SHARING GOVERNMENT BRINGS PEACE TO NORTHERN IRELAND
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 24, 2007
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The Voice of America issued the following story:
By Subhash Vohra
Nine years after Ireland's Good Friday Agreement, which led to a truce between Protestant Unionists and Catholic Nationalists, the government of Northern Ireland was formed on May 8 of this year. The Reverend Ian Paisley, a protestant and head of the Democratic Unionist Party, together with Martin McGuiness of the mainly Catholic Sinn Fein party, were sworn in as the new government's leader and deputy leader respectively. The two men put aside years of bitter rivalry and brought the peace process to a successful conclusion.
After decades of violence and the loss of more than 3,700 lives, direct rule of Northern Ireland by ...
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