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	Northern Ireland Assembly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The logo of the Northern Ireland Assembly is a six flowered linen or flax plant, chosen for the plant's historical economic importance to the region.
		The Assembly's 108 members are elected from 18 six-member constituencies on the basis of universal adult suffrage.
		Members of the Assembly are known as MLAs or "Members of the Legislative Assembly".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northern_Ireland_Assembly (1965 words)

	Northern Ireland Assembly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Northern Ireland Assembly is a 108-member legislative body for Northern Ireland that sits at Stormont with powers devolved to it from the Westminster parliament.
		The assembly was created as part of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and the first election to it was held on June 25, 1998.
		The 108 Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) are elected from 18 multi-member constituencies (the same constituencies used for Westminster elections) by the Single Transferable Vote.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/n/no/northern_ireland_assembly.html (236 words)

	Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The following is a list of all members of the Northern Ireland Assembly, or MLAs ("Members of the Legislative Assembly"), as of April 2005.
		The current assembly, which was elected in November 2003, has never met as Northern Ireland's devolved government and representative institutions remain suspended following the re-introduction of direct rule by the United Kingdom government on 14 October 2002.
		Jeffrey Donaldson, Nora Beare and Arlene Foster were elected as members of the UUP but moved to the DUP.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Members_of_the_Northern_Ireland_Assembly (177 words)

	CAIN: Events: Constitutional Convention Report, 20 November 1975
		Accordingly, this Convention concludes that the number of Northern Ireland Members of Parliament at Westminster should be increased to between 20 and 24, the boundaries and exact number of the constituencies to be determined by judicial commission on a basis and scale similar to comparable parts of the United Kingdom.
		That Northern Ireland should be administered by an elected body and an executive empowered to legislate and govern and to be known as the Parliament and Government of Northern Ireland.
		That the number of Northern Ireland Members of Parliament at Westminster should be increased to between 20 and 24, the boundaries and exact number of the constituencies to be determined by judicial commission on a basis and scale similar to comparable parts of the United Kingdom.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /events/convention/nicc75report.htm (17680 words)

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		Northern Ireland is the second most sparsely populated part of the UK after Scotland, with 317 people per square mile (122 per square kilometre).
		His central premise is that Northern Ireland should become more British and remain part of the UK simply because the majority of its citizens want it that way.
		Members of the LVF at the Maze were questioned about the murder in March of one of their comrades, David Keys, after he was questioned about a double murder at a pub in Poyntzpass.
	www.preachtoreach.com /northern_ireland_facts_and_figur.htm (4136 words)

	CNN.com - N. Irish assembly polls close - Nov. 26, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Northern Ireland's 1.1 million electors are choosing 108 delegates to the assembly.
		The assembly was dissolved in October 2002 in a row over an alleged IRA spy ring and the power-sharing executive suspended.
		Assembly members will be elected under a proportional representation system, with six seats up for grabs in each of 18 constituencies.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/11/26/n.ireland.election (415 words)

	The Northern Irish Conflict: A Chronology
		The history of Northern Ireland can be traced back to the 17th century, when the English finally succeeded in subduing the island after successfully putting down a number of rebellions.
		In a dual referendum held on May 22, 1998, Northern Ireland approved the accord by a vote of 71% to 29%, and the Irish Republic by a vote of 94%.
		International recognition and support for peace in Northern Ireland came on Oct. 16, 1998, when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to John Hume and David Trimble, the leaders of the largest Catholic and Protestant political parties, respectively, in Northern Ireland.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/northireland1.html (3054 words)

	Catholic World News : Northern Ireland Assembly Opposes Extension Of Abortion Act
		BELFAST (CWNews.com) - Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly have voted by an overwhelming majority to oppose the extension of Britain's 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland.
		Abortion law in Northern Ireland is governed by the 1861 Offenses Against the Person Act, a 1939 court case, and the 1945 Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Act.
		Wells said that the law in Northern Ireland only allowed abortion where the pregnancy would lead to serious medical or psychological problems which would endanger the mother's life, the mother was mentally subnormal, there was proven contact with German measles or there was a substantial genetic risk of having a mentally-handicapped child.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=13258 (931 words)

	Accord: Striking a balance. The Northern Ireland peace process (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The RIR is Northern Ireland’s regiment of the British Army.
		The Dáil Eireann is the lower house of the Irish Parliament whose members are elected by universal suffrage.
		After election to the Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue with 3.7% of the vote, the UKUP was admitted to all-party talks but withdrew with the DUP in 1997 in response to government contact with Sinn Féin.
	www.c-r.org /accord/ireland/accord8/profiles.shtml (4433 words)

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		The election for members of the Northern Ireland Assembly is seen as a major development in the peace process for the province.
		Britain, Ireland, Protestant leaders and the fact-finding commissioners did agree on one key point: Much more time will have to pass before they can be confident the IRA is really withdrawing from "all activities," as IRA commanders proclaimed July 28.
		But John Alderdice, the only Northern Ireland civilian on the panel, said they did not have any evidence yet that the IRA was withdrawing from moneymaking rackets - a major issue standing in the way of resumed power-sharing.
	www.firstcoastnews.com /news/news-article.aspx?storyid=45994 (776 words)

	NEWS RELEASE
		As members of the Europe Subcommittee, we have taken a particular interest in the peace process in Northern Ireland.
		With the Good Friday agreement, the people of Northern Ireland face a critically historic moment, because the success or failure of this process will literally determine whether their future is one of peace or violence.
		As all of the Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly delegation expressed, this will inspire optimism among the people of Northern Ireland and will have a significant and timely impact at this critical moment in their history.
	wwwc.house.gov /international_relations/107/news0319.htm (411 words)

	BBC News \| NORTHERN IRELAND \| Assembly members approve pay rise
		Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly have awarded themselves a pay rise.
		In the end, assembly members decided not to back-date the salary increase.
		Northern Ireland) Executive under fire over spending plan (03 Jul 00
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/northern_ireland/1078502.stm (290 words)

	CAIN: Events: Peace: Irish Peace Process - Chronology of Key Events, 1998-1999
		The text of a Northern Ireland Office (NIO) memo on the run-up to the announcement of the Independent Commission on Policing was leaked to the press.
		The Police (Northern Ireland) Act was passed in the House of Commons.
		Among the dead were family members, one family lost members from three generations, and close friends, and a number of tourists from the Republic of Ireland and Spain.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /events/peace/pp9899.htm (13930 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Northern Ireland
		It was a tentative deal that included both the Ulster Unionists (Northern Irish who wish to remain allied with Britain) and Sinn Fein (the political wing of the IRA, Catholics who wish to rejoin Northern Ireland to Ireland.) The historic agreement provided for a new governing council, or executive, with Protestant and Catholic representation.
		The historic day finally arrived on the last Monday of November, 1999, when the 108 members of the Northern Ireland Assembly voted to form a coalition government, with an executive of Protestant and Catholic members.
		This was regarded as an important step in convincing the majority of Protestants in Northern Ireland that they would not be forced into a union with the Republic without their approval.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/northernireland/future.html (941 words)

	CBC News:Voters in Northern Ireland may hand victory to hardliners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		BELFAST - Voters in Northern Ireland are expected to hand gains to hard-line pro-British Unionist and Irish nationalist parties in Wednesday's assembly election.
		In spite of the cold and the rain, polling was steady, in the vote for the 108 members of the Northern Ireland Assembly, a pillar of the Good Friday accord.
		Northern Ireland has one of the most complicated electoral systems in the world and final results aren't expected until early Friday morning
	www.cbc.ca /stories/print/2003/11/26/nireland031126 (316 words)

	Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents: Remarks to the Northern Ireland Assembly in Belfast, Northern Ireland - ...
		Together, people and leaders are moving Northern Ireland from the deep freeze of despair to the warm sunlight of peace.
		We will help to train your Assembly members, support NGO's that are building civil societies from the grassroots, invest in our common future through education, promote cross-border and cross-community understanding, create with you microcredit facilities to help small businesses get off the ground, support the trade and investment that will benefit both our people.
		And to the people of Northern Ireland I say it is your will for peace, after all, that has brought your country to this moment of hope.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2889/is_n36_v34/ai_21203415 (1175 words)

	International Center for Transitional Justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Other ICTJ staff members also visited Northern Ireland in the fall to give a number of presentations on transitional justice issues.
		The Center also met with senior representatives of both loyalist and republican traditions to discuss their views of the transition in Northern Ireland, and with victims' groups and legal representatives to discuss legal strategies in the context of transitions.
		The Center has continued to consult with relevant parties and monitor developments in Northern Ireland in an effort to identify and support the most appropriate ways to deal with the legacy of past violence.
	www.ictj.org /europe/nireland.asp (250 words)

	New N. Irish Assembly Members Learn Business Of Government
		Seventeen members of the Northern Ireland Assembly yesterday concluded a week of lectures, seminars and field visits organized by the Boston College Irish Institute as the first phase of a program to strengthen political leadership in Northern Ireland.
		The institute hosted the assembly members as part of the Task of Government Program, the American component of a larger transition initiative to assist Northern Ireland Assembly members and civil servants in meeting the challenges of governing.
		On Monday, College of Advancing Studies faculty member Wallace Coyle and former Carroll School of Management faculty member Mary Louise Hatten led seminars on strategies for personal communications and leadership, respectively, before the Assembly members departed for a tour of the Connecticut Statehouse in Hartford.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/rvp/pubaf/chronicle/v7/n25/task.html (788 words)

	Office of the Press Secretary
		We will help to train your Assembly members, support NGOs that are building civil societies from the grass roots, invest in our common future through education, promote cross-border and cross-community understanding, create with you microcredit facilities to help small businesses get off the ground, support the trade and investment that will benefit both our people.
		From here on in Northern Ireland, you have said only one dividing line matters -- the line between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it, between those energized by hope and those paralyzed by hatred, between those who choose to build up and those who want to keep on tearing down.
		And so, members of the Assembly, citizens of Belfast, people of Northern Ireland, remember that in the early days of the American republic, the Gaelic term for America was "Inis Fa'il" island of destiny.
	clinton3.nara.gov /WH/New/html/19980903-3317.html (1483 words)

	CNN.com - N. Irish assembly back to business - August 13, 2001
		John Reid, Britain's Northern Ireland secretary, suspended the assembly for 24 hours on Saturday to give the four parties of the ruling coalition more time to resolve their differences.
		The suspension meant that a make-or-break vote on electing a new Protestant leader of the assembly could be postponed for six weeks, probably until September 24.
		Sinn Fein has since argued that the IRA never intended to scrap weapons until after plans for military cutbacks and police reform were completed in Northern Ireland, a position rejected by all the other parties.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/08/13/ireland.assembly (650 words)

	INCORE : Research: Projects
		This is a Northern Ireland based project exploring the perspective of Northern Ireland’s politicians on community relations.
		Following this, members of the Northern Ireland Assembly and District Councillors were invited to explore the preliminary results at a Seminar in Stormont on June 23 2004.
		Analysing the implications of their various responses to this question, the project will also describe the kinds of CR work that politicians are prepared to support, and outline the kinds of work that they are reluctant to participate in.
	www.incore.ulster.ac.uk /research/projects/pcr (328 words)

	Belfast, Omagh, Armagh - Sept 3rd
		President Clinton begins his visit to Northern Ireland in Belfast where he will meet with members of the Northern Ireland Assembly at the Stormont Parliament Building.
		Following his meeting with the Assembly members, the President will address the people and Assembly of Northern Ireland from Waterfront Hall, Northern Ireland's principal conference and concert venue.
		Armagh is known as the "Cathedral City," it is the Irish seat of both the Roman Catholic and Church of Ireland (Anglican) churches.
	clinton4.nara.gov /WH/New/Russia/today3.html (428 words)

	Catholic World News : Northern Ireland Assembly Tries Peacemaking As Violence Returns
		BELFAST (CWNews.com) - Members of the Northern Ireland's new Assembly said on Friday that they hope they can defuse the tense showdown between police and Protestant loyalists over a parade that has been banned from proceeding through a Catholic neighborhood since last weekend.
		Five police officers were seriously injured Thursday night when ball bearings were fired at them from a crowd of 20,000 people gathered at a church outside of Portadown, the eventual destination of the annual parade by the Protestant Orange Order.
		David Trimble, the first minister of the Assembly, and his deputy, Seamus Mallon, began meeting with religious, business, and labor leaders on Friday to gather support for compromise.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=8070 (277 words)

	Disqualifications Act 2000
		Disqualification for certain offices which may be held by members of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
		(3) A person holding office as a member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board in accordance with paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 to the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 ceases to hold that office on becoming the holder of a disqualifying office.
		Section 36(5) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (which has the effect of allowing a member of Seanad Éireann to be a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly) is repealed.
	www.hmso.gov.uk /acts/acts2000/20000042.htm (815 words)

	New North Ireland Cabinet Joins Political Allies, Foes
		Delayed for more than a year by distrust and political deadlock, the very naming of a Cabinet was a milestone that at times had seemed beyond the reach of politicians working for peace in Northern Ireland.
		This is the first time in the history of the province that Irish republicans -- Catholic men and women who supported the use of violence to achieve their goal of a united Ireland -- have agreed to sit in a Belfast government under British sovereignty.
		Some members of the Northern Ireland Assembly gasped, and spectators began to hiss from the gallery.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V119/N62/north_ireland.62w.html (552 words)

	Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics
		The Parliament of Northern Ireland was established in 1921 concurrent with the foundation of the Irish Free State in the south.
		The House of Commons had 50 members and the Senate had 24 members elected by MPs for eight-year terms, as well as the Lord Mayor of Belfast and Mayor of Londonderry ex officio.
		The Observatory does not include the elected Constitutional Convention of 1975 or the Forum of 1996-98, but it does include current members of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
	www.qub.ac.uk /cawp/UKhtmls/NIMPs.htm (207 words)

	APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE APPROVES $1.5 MILLION IN FEDERAL FUNDING FOR IRISH INSTITUTE AT BOSTON COLLEGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In the aftermath of the 1998 Good Friday Peace Agreement on Northern Ireland, the Center was renamed the Irish Institute, and its programs were expanded to accommodate a broader scope of work in education, government and politics, and related management.
		The Irish Institute also established a specific program to assist recently elected members of the Northern Ireland Assembly in forming their new government.
		The Institute is also involved in providing training for new parliamentarians and public servants in Northern Ireland, as well as the civil servants from Ireland and Britain who will be responsible for implementing cross-border bodies and British-Irish bodies.
	kennedy.senate.gov /~kennedy/statements/99/06/1999614602.html (364 words)

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