Ulster dialogue - it's a slanging match

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The Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue, which was designed to promote closer links between politicians from different parties, has proved to be a place of considerable tension. It is very expensive to operate, and is treated with disdain by many of its members. This was a shock to members of the Northern Ireland women's coalition, who are campaigning on the basis of consensual accommodation in the run-up to the forthcoming general election. The performance of the forum has proved very disappointing for those who believed in negotiation in Northern Irish politics.

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Nationalists remain split over bullet or the ballot box

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Local elections in Northern Ireland take place on May 19, 1993. Past voting figures show seven in 10 nationalist voters vote for the Social Democratic and Labour Party and the other three support Sinn Fein. Sinn Fein supporters comprise 10% of the total vote. Interviews with Mark Durkan, strategist and SDLP candidate and Mitchel McLaughlin, Sinn Fein candidate, are reported. McLaughlin considered IRA bombs had caused change. Mr Durkan thought they were counter-productive. Both felt the British traditional defence and economic arguments were obsolete.

United Kingdom, Elections, Interview, British foreign relations, Social Democratic and Labour Party (Northern Ireland), McLaughlin, Mitchel, Durkan, Mark

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Sinn Fein: united but split

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The Republican movement is not divided, according to IRA leader Martin McGuinness in a recent speech at the Sinn Fein Annual Conference. There is certainly not a split which is prompting violent murders, as has happened in the past, but there is a vast divide between McGuinness and most ordinary Republicans, who wish to see an end to the conflict in Northern Ireland. For them, a return to violence would bring no positive results.

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