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...hoping he would win,” said Wright, who is a native of Ireland. “I’m slightly disappointed that the majority wasn’t larger, but I think he’s a strong leader...
HIRED. NICK LEESON, 38, former expatriate banker in Singapore who brought about the collapse of the U.K.'s Barings Bank in 1995; as commercial manager of soccer club Galway United; in Galway, Ireland. Leeson, whose autobiography Rogue Trader became a best seller and was made into a movie starring Ewan McGregor, has been in demand as a speechmaker since his release from prison in 1999. The Galway appointment is his first new job in a decade...
Though British officials had gone to considerable lengths to downplay the significance of the event, the summit agreement reverberated across Britain and Ireland like a distant explosion. The straightforward language of the accord raised as many fears as it did hopes. Said Professor John A. Murphy, a history teacher at University College, Cork: "There is no grand solution. You can only make incremental moves. This seems to be a courageous one. It's the first time a role for the south has been formally recognized [in Northern Ireland] since 1925. This has to be a dramatic development...
...whose political leaders bitterly oppose Anglo-Irish talks. They insist that any role by the Irish Republic in the affairs of the province is an infringement of British sovereignty. As such, they fear that the agreement marks the beginning of a process that will lead inevitably to a united Ireland under Dublin's control. Said Peter Robinson, deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party: "We're being cast aside, and there's a deep sense of betrayal...
...Protestants, of course, are only part of the problem. For the Thatcher-FitzGerald compromise to survive at all, it will need to win the support of Northern Ireland's mainstream Catholic nationalists. If Thatcher must satisfy Protestants that no sellout is under way, she must also convince Catholics that their allegiance to an Irish identity and to Dublin has somehow been recognized and accepted. --By Frederick Painton. Reported by Edmund Curran/Belfast and Christopher Ogden/Hillsborough