Related: Intransigent Irish
"N. Ireland power-sharing talks hit snag" by Associated Press | February 2, 2010
BELFAST - Northern Ireland’s major Protestant party unexpectedly withheld support yesterday for a painstakingly negotiated deal with its Catholic partners to save their 2 1/2-year-old administration.
The surprise setback upset plans by the British and Irish prime ministers, Gordon Brown and Brian Cowen, respectively, to travel to Northern Ireland to unveil what would have been a breakthrough in their efforts to sustain power-sharing, the central goal of the territory’s 1998 peace accord.
Why does the MSM have to make it about them?
All sides said a successful conclusion remained possible today.
Okay.
Both prime ministers had expected the Democratic Unionists, who represent the British Protestant majority, to accept a compromise plan crafted over the past week of day-and-night negotiations. Cowen canceled an official trip to Spain, while Brown’s foreign minister erroneously told lawmakers in London that the British leader was already in Northern Ireland.
But a meeting of Democratic Unionist lawmakers called to confirm the deal dragged on in secrecy until the evening. It ended with a tired-eyed party leader, Peter Robinson, declaring that another long night of talks with British officials and Sinn Fein lay ahead....
Well, I'm going to bed then. See you in the morning.
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Damn alarm clock!!!
BELFAST - Lawmakers from Northern Ireland’s major Protestant party have unanimously backed a compromise plan with the Catholic minority to save their power-sharing government, Democratic Unionist Party leader Peter Robinson said today.
So what was with the about face?
Brown threaten 'em when he was there but was not there?
Robinson, who leads the troubled 2 1/2-year-old coalition at the heart of Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace accord, announced the midnight breakthrough after 10 days and nights of negotiations that had left negotiators on the edge of exhaustion.
And I slept through it!
The Catholics of Sinn Fein - who precipitated the power-sharing crisis by threatening to withdraw from the coalition, forcing its collapse - had already announced their backing for the still-confidential plan. But Robinson’s Democratic Unionists were publicly divided over whether to cut a new deal with Sinn Fein.....
WTF? That is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what was "reported" THREE DAYS EARLIER!!
WTF, MSM?
The Zionist AmeriKan MSM really has it in for the Catholics, huh, readers?
Because we can challenge them and are dominate in so many places?
Of course, the SICK F*** PRIESTS need to be DEFROCKED and GUILLOTINED, but that's a whole other post.
The contradiction (lie) is right in the same f***ing piece, readers!!!!!
Democratic Unionist lawmakers had been reluctant to concede to Sinn Fein’s demand for justice powers to be transferred to Belfast, in part because a British general election is imminent. Many in the party fear they could lose Protestant votes to harder-line politicians if they appear to cooperate too much with Sinn Fein....
You know, I'M TIRED of the POLITICS! ANYWHERE!!!!
I WANT PEACE and I WANT IT NOW, I don't care how you get it, just GET IT!!
NO MORE KILLING!!!
Northern Ireland power-sharing was designed to consign to history a conflict that has claimed 3,700 lives since the late 1960s. Peace has prevailed thanks to 1990s cease-fires and more recent disarmament by the province’s major outlawed groups.
Well, LET'S KEEP it that way, huh?
But the aim of uniting Northern Ireland’s 1.8 million residents through a unity government has proved a titanic struggle.
Did you know Irishmen built the Titanic?
The British, Irish, and US governments all back the idea of transferring control over law-and-order issues to a new locally run Justice Department.
Who is standing in the way again?
During the recent negotiations, the Democratic Unionists had demanded a high price in exchange for dropping their veto on the move....
But it was the Catholics who caused the crisis?
Robinson had said he wanted to regain freedoms for Northern Ireland’s hard-line Protestant fraternal groups to march once again past Sinn Fein power bases....
Why the INSISTENCE on PROVOCATION? I don't get it.
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