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Northern Ireland’s Political Crisis Deepens

By Mairead Carey, Contributor
December / January 2003

December 1, 2002 by Leave a Comment

Belfast: August 6, 1997: Paul Murphy, the new Northern Ireland Secretary, with the then Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam, after a meeting with Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams.

The political crisis in the North looks set to continue in the coming months. It seems that both Dublin and London are now resigned to the fact that it will take a lot of work to re-establish some trust between Nationalists and Unionists which would enable the institutions in the North to get up and running again. Elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly are due in May and … [Read more...] about Northern Ireland’s Political Crisis Deepens

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