AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Centre is a lonely place to be as extremists gain most.
(From Irish Independent)
FIVE YEARS ago, the terms of the Belfast Agreement were widely welcomed by both communities in Northern Ireland.
So wrote the Irish Times in an editorial on Wednesday, October 29. As often happenswith editorials, the statement is literally accurate but misleading, by reason of what it omits.
The Belfast Agreement was indeed welcomed by a majority in both communities in Northern Ireland. The majority in the Catholic Community was overwhelming. But theinitial majority in the Protestant community was quite small.
With practical experience of the working of the Agreement over the years, the Catholic support for the Agreement remained solidly majoritarian.
But, as a result of their own experience of the working of the Agreement, Protestantsturned away from it, so that now a solid majority of all Protestants are opposed to the Agreement.
That indeed is something of an understatement. During the present elections, there are no Protestant public representatives who favour the Agreement as it stands.
- Adams and the IRA: Northern Ireland. (relationship between Sinn Fein leader...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) February 28, 1998 700+ words
...leaders of Sinn Fein, struggled...suspension from the Northern Ireland peace talks...what gives Sinn Fein its chief significance in Northern Ireland's peace process...Another is that Sinn Fein is now Northern Ireland's third largest...
- U.S. backs hard line on the IRA; IRA,SINN FEIN,NORTHERN IRELAND.
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) February 5, 2005 700+ words
...that George Bush may snub Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams...lasting and durable peace in Northern Ireland. 'All paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland should follow through...that Mr Bush may stop Sinn Fein leaders attending the...
- Rays of hope: Northern Ireland. (Sinn Fein holds peace talks with U.K....
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) May 13, 1995 700+ words
...McGuinness, who led the Sinn Fein delegation in its...minister in the Northern Ireland Office, was at...IRA weapons, but Sinn Fein's of "demilitarisation...boss, to give Sinn Fein "equality" with Northern Ireland's other political...
- Sinn Fein says everyone made mistakes in Northern Ireland.
- News wire article from: United Press International February 21, 2000 700+ words
...the stalemate in Northern Ireland's peace process...Ard Chomhairle, Sinn Fein's executive...including the Northern Ireland assembly and a...sharing Cabinet. Sinn Fein leaders condemned British Northern Ireland minister Peter...
- The temptation of Adams: is the IRA ready for peace? (Sinn Fein leader Gerry...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) November 20, 1993 700+ words
...negotiations with Sinn Fein, an allegation...raised all over Northern Ireland about Mr Major's sincerity. One Sinn Fein source went even...peace envoy to Northern Ireland. He has not...Changes in Sinn Fein official policy...
- Protestant unionists, Sinn Fein win big in Northern Ireland.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) March 9, 2007 700+ words
...bitter rival, Sinn Fein, the Catholic...winners in the Northern Ireland assembly...the DUP and Sinn Fein. Peter Hain, Britain's Northern Ireland secretary...deadlines in Northern Ireland have a habit...power with Sinn Fein "as we know...
- NORTHERN IRELAND AND SINN FEIN: A MAJOR HURDLE IN PATH OF PEACE.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Johnson, Larry February 11, 1999 700+ words
...of resistance to Sinn Fein's inclusion in Northern Ireland's new government...what happens, Sinn Fein will not abandon...questions about Sinn Fein's ties to the...legislature that ran Northern Ireland for a half-century...
- Unionists want Sinn Fein ousted from power; NORTHERN IRELAND: Trimble should...
- Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) July 24, 2002 700+ words
...UNIONISTS must move together this week to remove Sinn Fein from the government of Northern Ireland if Prime Minister Tony Blair is unwilling to...wait until the autumn to take action against Sinn Fein. ``If there is a compelling case to have...
