Ireland Makes Historic Agreement For Power-Sharing Assembly

AP SHAWN POGATCHNIK May 8, 2007 03:19 PM
Northern Ireland - Protestant firebrand Ian Paisley and IRA veteran Martin McGuinness formed a long-unthinkable alliance Tuesday as Northern Ireland power-sharing went from dream to reality -- and all sides expressed hope that bloodshed over this British territory would never return.
Paisley, who spent decades refusing to cooperate with Northern Ireland's Catholic minority, conceded he had often refused to budge in years past but was ready now. He lauded theIrish Republican Army's moves to renounce violence and disarm, and Sinn Fein's decision to cooperate with the province's mostly Protestant police as genuine.
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