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...dissenting groups and raise public awareness, presumably before calling another referendum in 2002. He knows he can certainly improve on the lackluster campaign the "yes" forces ran. Turnout was only 33%, allowing passionate minorities - anti-abortion activists, Greens worried that the new Rapid Reaction Force would undermine Irish neutrality, Sinn Fein members eager to weaken Ahern before the 2002 election - to swamp widespread but diffuse pro-European feelings. A similar anti-European coalition lost three earlier referendums, which gives Ahern some running room. On the other hand, Ireland is now on the cusp of a major shift, from being...
...must be wondering whether his accolade is really a curse. Bravely he has struggled to keep some forward momentum in the Ulster peace process, as much against hard-liners in his own Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) as against the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and its political front Sinn Fein. But the process is stuck in neutral, perhaps drifting backward. Last week, British prime minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern convened talks with Ulster politicians at Hillsborough Castle near Belfast. All the pomp and glitter, and an IRA statement that it was talking again with the international body...
David Trimble, leader of the Ulster Unionists and Nobel Peace Prize winner, has been vigorously urging his party's ruling council to vote in favor of returning to governmental power-sharing with Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.). Such a vote would be a notable landmark in what has been a long and arduous peace process...
...semantics of "completely and verifiably beyond use." But the Unionists regard the IRA gunmen as nothing more than criminals, and despite the carefully choreographed measures prescribed by the Good Friday Agreement, Trimble has faced a growing mutiny within his own ranks over sharing the reins of government with the Sinn Fein while their IRA allies still have access to arms. So, while the last episode had Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams desperately trying to coax a disarmament gesture out of his hard men, the dramatic spotlight now shifts to Trimble's efforts to placate his own skeptics...
...Sinn Fein, the political arm of the IRA, was included in the government, which included both Protestant and Catholic representatives...