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	N. Ireland Politician David Ervine Dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ervine, who was imprisoned for six years in the 1970s for his activities in the outlawed Ulster Volunteer Force, was the leading figure in the UVF's legal Progressive Unionist Party.
		Ervine, a one-time Protestant terrorist who became one of Northern Ireland's most articulate and forward-thinking politicians, died Monday Jan. 8, 2007 after suffering a heart attack, according to colleagues and a Belfast hospital.
		Ervine was influential in delivering a 1994 cease-fire by the Ulster Volunteer Force and Northern Ireland's other major outlawed Protestant group, the Ulster Defense Association.
	www.statesman.com /news/content/shared-gen/ap/Europe/Obit_Ervine.html (385 words)

	Full Coverage: Unionist leader Ervine dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		David Ervine, leader of the loyalist Progressive Unionist Party in Northern Ireland, has died in hospital.Mr Ervine, who suffered a heart attack, a stroke and brain haemorrhage, was 53 and had been on a life...
		David Ervine, the leader of Northern Ireland's Progressive Unionist Party, is in a critical condition in hospital after suffering two heart attacks and a stroke over the weekend.
		DAVID ERVINE, one of the North's leading loyalist politicians who brokered the 1994 Loyalist ceasefire, was fighting for his life in a Belfast hospital last night.
	www.topix.net /news/irish-republican-army?full=def043b511 (248 words)

	The Raw Story \| Leading Northern Ireland politician David Ervine dies aged 53
		Ervine, a member of the Stormont Assembly (regional parliament) for East Belfast, led the PUP, which is aligned to the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), since 2002.
		Ervine was sentenced to six years in jail for possessing explosives after he was arrested in 1974 with a bomb in his car.
		Ervine said he was sucked into paramilitarism after the IRA killed nine people on Bloody Friday at the start of the "troubles" in July 1972.
	rawstory.com /news/2006/Leading_Northern_Ireland_politician_01082007.html (313 words)

	David Ervine \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Ervine was the fifth and youngest child of Walter and Elizabeth "Dolly" Ervine.
		Ervine, then 19, knew one of the dead, a young man of the same age who lived three streets away from him in the staunchly Protestant area of east Belfast, where they had grown up.
		Ervine was soon elected to the Northern Ireland Forum and in 1997 won a seat on Belfast city council.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,1985828,00.html (786 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Latest News - N.Irish Protestant leader David Ervine dies
		Ervine died in hospital in Belfast on Monday after suffering a heart attack at the weekend, a spokeswoman for his political party said.
		Ervine, 53, the leader of the province's Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) and a former paramilitary, was influential in talks that led to 1998's landmark Good Friday peace agreement to end 30 years of sectarian conflict.
		Ervine later said he was driven to paramilitarism after witnessing the carnage of "Bloody Friday" in 1972 when the IRA killed nine people and caused devastation across Belfast by detonating 21 bombs within hours of each other.
	news.scotsman.com /latest.cfm?id=40002007 (538 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Northern Ireland \| PUP's Ervine has died in hospital (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mr Ervine, a former UVF prisoner, was a key figure in brokering the loyalist paramilitary ceasefire of 1994.
		Mr Ervine was originally taken to the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald but was then transferred to the intensive care unit at the RVH.
		Mr Ervine, who was married with two sons, became the leader of the PUP in 2002 after replacing Belfast councillor Hugh Smyth.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/6242215.stm (636 words)

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		BELFAST (Reuters) - David Ervine, a former paramilitary who gave up violence to become one of Northern Ireland's leading Protestant politicians, died in hospital on Monday after a heart attack, a spokeswoman for his party said.
		Ervine, 53, headed the province's Progressive Unionist Party (PUP), the political wing of the illegal Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) of which he was once a member.
		Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern described Ervine as "courageous and articulate" and said his presence would be missed in current last-ditch efforts by London and Dublin to clinch a Protestant-Catholic power-sharing deal in the province.
	today.reuters.co.uk /news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=UKNews1&storyID=2007-01-08T182232Z_01_L08826208_RTRUKOC_0_UK-IRISH-ERVINE.xml&WTmodLoc=HP-C1-TopStories-6 (226 words)

	David Ervine \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Ervine wanted to project an entirely different image of Ulster loyalists to the planet, one that was thoughtful, unmenacing and eager to compromise even with their IRA enemies once the peace process began.
		Born in East Belfast in 1954, Ervine was deeply marked by the eruption of the Troubles.
		Ervine said he watched the bombs exploding all over the city from the vantage point of the top floor of a pub in the east of the city.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,1985673,00.html (1134 words)

	David Ervine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		David Ervine MLA (July 21, 1953 - January 8, 2007) was a Northern Irish politician and the leader of the Progressive Unionist Party.
		Ervine was considered to be one of the most progressive unionists in Northern Ireland politics.
		Ervine is said to have played a pivotal role in bringing about loyalist ceasefire of October 1994.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Ervine (1000 words)

	David Ervine - Politics.ie Wiki
		David Ervine (1953-2007) was Leader of the Progressive Unionist Party, which represents the views of the Loyalist paramilitary organisation, the Ulster Volunteer Force.
		While he had argued in favour of compromise with his nationalist opponents, Mr Ervine remained an adherant of unionist principles and was therefore passionately opposed to a united Ireland.
		On May 13th 2006 it was announced that Ervine would sit in the Assembly taking the Ulster Unionist Party whip, increasing their representation to 25 two days short of the Assembly's first sitting.
	www.politics.ie /wiki/index.php?title=David_Ervine (531 words)

	Obituary: David Ervine, Ulster militant who became a peacemaker - International Herald Tribune
		Ervine, who was imprisoned for six years in the 1970s for his activities in the outlawed Ulster Volunteer Force, became the leading figure in the Progressive Unionist Party, the political wing of the paramilitary group.
		Ervine was influential in delivering a 1994 cease-fire by the UVF and the other major outlawed Protestant group, the Ulster Defense Association.
		Raised in a staunchly working-class Protestant area of Belfast, Ervine joined the UVF as a teenager in the 1970s and was arrested in 1974 while transporting a bomb.
	www.iht.com /articles/2007/01/08/news/obits.php (544 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Loyalist leader David Ervine dies
		David Ervine, a former paramilitary who played a key role in securing the October 1994 loyalist ceasefire, died today after suffering a massive heart attack.
		Mr Ervine, a loyalist who made the long journey from violence to politics, was aged 53.
		Mr Ervine suffered a heart attack, a stroke and brain haemorrhage at the weekend and had been on a life-support machine for 24 hours.
	telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/08/uervine108.xml (506 words)

	[BOT] David Ervine
		Central to Ervine's emerging political vision was the belief that in the past, while working-class Catholics had been abused for their disloyalty, working-class Protestants had been manipulated for their loyalty by the Ascendency and by London.
		As a spokesman for the PUP, Ervine attended the 1994 Labour conference in Blackpool with Spence.
		David Ervine, Ulster Volunteer Force terrorist and spokesman of the Progressive Unionist Party, was born on July 21, 1953.
	www.drugpolicycentral.com /bot/article/timesonline4829.htm (1129 words)

	David Ervine, loyalist bomber turned Ulster peacemaker, dies at 53 \| The Guardian \| Guardian Unlimited
		The extraordinary political odyssey undertaken by David Ervine - from paramilitary bomber jailed in the Maze prison to leading loyalist persuader for peace - ended prematurely yesterday after he suffered a heart attack.
		Although Ervine was the only member of the Progressive Unionist party (PUP) in the chamber, he remained a vocal and influential presence to the last, eagerly participating in debates about the restoration of devolved government.
		Ervine's connection to the UVF provoked a storm of protest last year when he sought to take the whip of the Ulster Unionist party in the assembly.
	www.guardian.co.uk /guardianpolitics/story/0,,1985928,00.html (678 words)

	ireland.com - Breaking News - Mon, Jan 08, 2007 - PUP leader David Ervine dies in hospital
		Mr Ervine, who was imprisoned in the 1970s for possessing explosives as a member of the Ulster Volunteer Force, was regarded as one of the most forward-thinking unionists for supporting the Belfast Agreement and his pivotal role in brokering the loyalist ceasefires of 1994.
		Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said he was "greatly saddened" of the death of Mr Ervine, describing him as "courageous and articulate." Mr Ahern said his presence would be missed as final steps are being taken to bring about the return of power-sharing to the north.
		Mr Ervine is the youngest of five children of non-practising Presbyterian parents.
	www.ireland.com /newspaper/breaking/2007/0108/breaking1.htm (528 words)

	N Irish Protestant leader Ervine dies. 09/01/2007. ABC News Online
		David Ervine, a former paramilitary who gave up violence to become one of Northern Ireland's leading Protestant politicians, has died in hospital after a heart attack.
		Mr Ervine, 53, headed the British-ruled province's Progressive Unionist Party (PUP), the political wing of the illegal Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) of which he was once a member.
		Raised in a staunchly working-class Protestant area of Belfast, Mr Ervine joined the UVF as a teenager in the 1970s and was arrested in 1974 while transporting a bomb.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200701/s1823469.htm (417 words)

	MSN Newsbot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		David Ervine, leader of the Progressive Unionist Party, speaks to the media at the first meeting of the Northern Ireland Assembly in three and a half years at Stormont in Belfast in this May 15, 2006 file photo.
		Ervine, one of Northern Ireland's leading Protestant politicians, died in hospital in Belfast on January 8, 2007, after suffering a heart attack at the weekend, a spokeswoman for his political party said.
		David Ervine, leader of the Progressive Unionist Party, is fighting for his life in a Belfast hospital.
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	Obit: David Ervine, NI politician-Hero or Villain?
		David Ervine was a unionist who finally gave took up arms and fought for what he believed.
		Ervine was one of the earliest Unionists to recognise that the old Protestant ascendancy was a busted flush.
		Ervine came to give a lecture there one of the great things about that university is that spokespeople from various political groups come to speak there including Bernadette Mcaliskey, Ken Mcguiness of the Ulster unionist party and many others I along with many of the students formed a good opinion of Ervine.
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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		BELFAST (Reuters) - David Ervine, one of Northern Ireland's leading Protestant politicians, died in hospital on Monday after a heart attack, a spokeswoman for his party said.
		Ervine, 53, was the leader of the province's Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) and a former paramilitary.
		Prime Minister Tony Blair said in a statement Ervine was a man who played a major part in trying to bring peace to Northern Ireland, whatever his past.
	today.reuters.co.uk /news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=UKNews1&storyID=2007-01-08T172748Z_01_L08826208_RTRUKOC_0_UK-IRISH-ERVINE.xml&WTmodLoc=HP-C1-TopStories-5 (237 words)

	Department of the Taoiseach - Statement by An Taoiseach on the death of David Ervine
		I was greatly saddened to learn of the death of David Ervine.
		David Ervine was a courageous politician who sought to channel the energies of loyalism in a positive political direction.
		David Ervine had travelled his own difficult journey to democratic politics but he made that journey.
	www.taoiseach.gov.ie /index.asp?locID=404&docID=3132 (212 words)

	Amazon.com: "David Ervine": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Its leader, David Ervine, himself a former prisoner, proved to be an intelligent and highly articulate politician.
		David Ervine, leader of the Progressive Unionist Party (PUP), a political party close to the loyalist paramilitary organisation UVF, sees this issue...
		David Ervine, a former UVF prisoner and Loyalist politician, speaking on television twenty years after the attacks,...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/David-Ervine (496 words)

	MLA's David Ervine & Dermot Nesbitt - Boston College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Irish Institute is pleased to have hosted Northern Ireland Assembly members David Ervine and Dermot Nesbitt for lunch in the Burns Library at Boston College on November 10,1999.
		David Ervine is leader of the Progressive Unionist Party.
		He is a longtime Belfast City Councilor, and was instrumental in bringing extreme elements of his party and the Ulster Volunteer Force to accept the 1993 cease fire agreement.
	www.bc.edu /centers/irish/institute/news/ervine (193 words)

	ireland.com - Breaking News - Sun, Jan 07, 2007 - David Ervine critically ill in hospital
		David Ervine, one of Northern Ireland leading loyalist politicians, was tonight fighting for his life in hospital.
		Mr Ervine is the Assembly member for East Belfast.
		Mr Ervine, 53, was originally treated in the Ulster Hospital but was transferred later today to the Royal Victoria.
	www.ireland.com /newspaper/breaking/2007/0107/breaking40.htm (251 words)

	RTE News - Adams and Ervine hold talks
		Mr Ervine, who sought the meeting, said the process is in crisis because of allegations of continuing IRA activity and the continued violence between rival communities at interface areas, especially in Belfast.
		Mr Ervine said the people he represents are losing faith in the peace process.
		He said the process was in a "substantial and serious crisis", which, he said, both the government and the media are playing down.
	www.rte.ie /news/2002/0506/north.html (97 words)

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