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Paisley proposes power-sharing without SF

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  • 11-01-2005 9:38am
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    arcadegame2004
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    Despite holding different views in the past, I now feel maybe we should accept powersharing without SF until the latter agree to cop on and tell the IRA to do the same e.g. no more bank-robberies thanks, show us the weapons being destroyed if you don't mind, stop punishment-beatings like. What do you all think? I think this would constitute carrot and stick and could help the IRA to cop on and come to its senses.

    Paisley in talks with Blair today

    11 January 2005 07:40

    The DUP leader, Ian Paisley, is expected to discuss the political situation in the North with the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in London today.

    Mr Paisley said yesterday that Sinn Féin had ruled themselves out of the political process because of the IRA's alleged involvement in last month's £26m bank robbery in Belfast.

    Last week's statement by the North's most senior police officer, Hugh Orde, that he believes the IRA were behind the Northern Bank robbery has changed the political climate in the North.

    This afternoon the Northern Secretary, Paul Murphy, is expected to make a statement in the House of Commons.

    The DUP is pushing for Tony Blair to consider a formula for devolved government in the North without Sinn Féin.

    But with Westminster elections due in the North before the summer, Mr Blair is unlikely to suggest any quick-fix ideas about the restoration of Stormont.

    The first political contacts of the new year between the British and Irish governments will come next week when the Minister for Foreign Affairs is due to meet the Northern Secretary.

    The Taoiseach is likely to see Tony Blair after Mr Ahern returns from China in a fortnight.

    The PSNI are due to give an update on their investigation of the bank robbery by the middle of this week.


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