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...government with power shared equally by Catholics and Protestants, and tied to England, must be established in Northern Ireland to restore order in that country, an official of Ulster's only bisectarian political party said at the ARCO Forum last night...
John Cushnahan, general secretary of Northern Ireland's Alliance Party, said, "My party is convinced that a partnership government would develop a new common loyalty between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland...
Cushnahan rejected the possible solution of a united Ireland, noting that a British withdrawal could lower living standards and that Protestants in Ulster fear the church-dominated government of the Irish Republic might endanger their religious rights...
...only does an all-Ireland proposal incur the opposition of the Protestant community, but it doesn't even have majority support in the Catholic community," Cushnahan added...
...independent Northern Ireland would be equally unsuccessful because such a state would be economically unviable and British withdrawal could lead to civil war, he said...