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	Encyclopedia: Stormont government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Government of Ireland Act prescribed that elections to the House of Commons be by the Single Transferable Vote (STV), though the Parliament was given power to alter the electoral system from three years after its first meeting.
		The STV system was the subject of criticism from grassroots Unionists but because the three year period ended during the Labour government of 1924, the government decided not to provoke the known nationalist sympathies of many Labour backbenchers and held the second election on the same basis.
		Stormont was abolished just six weeks after Bloody Sunday when the Unionist Government refused to hand over responsibility for law and order.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Stormont-government (1496 words)

	Parliament of Northern Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The STV system was the subject of criticism from grassroots Unionists but because the three year period ended during the Labour government of 1924, the Stormont government decided not to provoke the known egalitarian sympathies of many Labour backbenchers and held the second election on the same basis.
		During World War II, the Stormont government called on Westminster to introduce conscription several times, as this was already the case in Britain.
		Stormont was abolished just six weeks after Bloody Sunday when the Unionist Government refused to hand over responsibility for law and order to Westminster.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parliament_of_Northern_Ireland (1754 words)

	BBC - History - War and Conflict - Stormont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Stormont is the seat of devolved government in Northern Ireland.
		To the unionist community Stormont became a symbol of their power but to the nationalist it was a symbol of oppression.
		Stormont became the seat of a new Northern Ireland government on 2 December 1999 when the Northern Ireland Executive was established.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/war/troubles/factfiles/stormont.shtml (457 words)

	The Examiner - News From Ireland - 30, November, 1999
		Stormont is the seat of the former government and parliament of Northern Ireland.
		When the Stormont government failed to prevent the breakdown of law and order in the late Sixties it was suspended in March, 1972, but not before the massacre of Bloody Sunday in the previous January.
		When the British Government and the Unionists made the surrender of all arms by paramilitary groups a precondition of all party talks, it was rejected by Gerry Adams.
	archives.tcm.ie /irishexaminer/1999/11/30/ipage_12.htm (1201 words)

	CAIN: Events: Civil Rights - "We Shall Overcome" .... published by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association ...
		In August the Stormont Government's ban on marches had been extended for a further 12 months but in the growing government repression and paramilitary violence NICRA decided that the time had come once more to take to the streets to highlight the denial of civil liberties.
		Bloody Sunday was a British Government success in that it immobilised NICRA from returning to the streets, not through imposing fear in the ranks of the marchers, but in finally driving a large section of the apolitical masses away from the concept of civil rights and into the arms of the men of violence.
		Stormont, which had looked as if it would last for ever, was gone at the stroke of a London pen.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /events/crights/nicra/nicra785.htm (1674 words)

	Parliament of Northern Ireland
		The Government of Ireland Act prescribed that elections to the House of Commons be by the single transferable vote, though the Parliament was given power to alter the electoral system from three years after its first meeting.
		The PR system was the subject of criticism from grassroots Unionists but because the three year period ended during the Labour government of 1924, the government decided not to provoke the known nationalist sympathies of many Labour backbenchers and held the second election on the same basis.
		However, in 1968 the government abolished the Queen's University constituency and created four new constituencies in the outskirts of Belfast.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/parliament_of_northern_ireland (1280 words)

	Modern Ireland: Cabinet Papers of the Stormont Administration,
		The Government was formed on 7 June 1921 when, prior to the first meeting of the new parliament, the Lord Lieutenant established the Departments of the Government of Northern Ireland and appointed a Minister as the head of each of them.
		The Government in Belfast realised that, if it was to avoid collapsing under the burden of debt, it had to secure a change in the method of calculating, and a reduction in the size of, its imperial contribution.
		For example, the Government in Northern Ireland was obliged by the Treasury to undertake a revaluation and to compel local authorities to contribute a larger share of the expenditure on education.
	microformguides.gale.com /Data/Introductions/31970FM.htm (13108 words)

	Irish American Post
		Now normally John, obviously the reassurance that the Government is not involved in the timing of these things, and so on, and it's the police's role, that's normally very, very reassuring, but in a case of somewhere as sensitive, politically sensitive as Northern Ireland at the moment.
		So that is absolutely true, but there's one difference, the loyalists are not in Government, the republicans are in Government, and to be in Government and associated in any way with a level of violence or maintenance of a terrorist or a private army, that is a hugely difficult problem.
		What happened at Stormont was for the optics, it was part of the preparation of an exit strategy for the Ulster Unionists, and I am afraid to say I think that the British Government, under the NIO have been up to their necks in trying to provide that.
	www.gaelicweb.com /irishampost/year2002/10october/news/news09.html (13694 words)

	Northern Ireland Assembly Official Report - Tuesday 6 March 2001
		The Programme for Government is a modest document, and it should not therefore be too difficult to ensure that, given the modest demands and objectives that we have set ourselves, these measures are properly tied down and time bound in a much more specific way.
		The institutions, or vehicles of government, that will deliver the programme are totally defective, devoid of democratic substance, and will in many cases encourage the lawlessness that arises from violations of the rule of law in the interests of political expediency.
		Apart from the capacity of the electorate to change its Government, the second fundamental principle of government is to have a Government and a responsible Opposition — an Opposition that hopes one day to inherit the reins of government.
	www.niassembly.gov.uk /record/reports/010306.htm (17138 words)

	Government considers Stormont buildings sale
		The Government has confirmed it is considering selling off a number of its buildings at Stormont to the private sector.
		While speculation has been rife in recent weeks that the Stormont estate is to be sold off, a spokesperson for the Department of Finance and Personnel today denied this.
		The Government said the proposals, which have still to be approved by ministers, will provide better accommodation for staff “in a way that will deliver significant savings of around £100 million and ongoing value for money for the taxpayer”.
	www.4ni.co.uk /industrynews.asp?id=41358 (330 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Kingston
		With the formation of the archdiocese the Counties of Glengarry, Stormont, and Cornwall were separated from the Diocese of Kingston, erected into the separate Diocese of Alexandria, which, with the Diocese of Peterborough, became suffragan of Kingston.
		A gathering ground of old for the neighboring Indian tribes, it was made the seat of Government in 1841 on the union of the two Canadas, and remained such for four years.
		The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is located there, as is Regiopolis College, also two schools for girls, with an attendance of 314, a school for boys, with 250 pupils, a mother-house of the Sisters of Charity of Providence, with 140 sisters, which cares for 300 old and infirm, as well as an annexed orphanage.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08658a.htm (1050 words)

	Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Government and Politics - Open Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The prime minister is normally the leader of the largest party in the Commons, and the government is dependent on its support.
		Devolved government was reestablished in Northern Ireland in December 1999.
		The British Government is working closely with the Irish Government and Northern Ireland political parties to create the conditions that would allow the restoration of devolved government to take place.
	open-site.org /Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Government_and_Politics (1127 words)

	BSI Reports: Week605: 27 - 37 MAY 2002
		By way of example, he said that the Stormont Government had not been informed that torture techniques were being used as part of internee interrogation procedures, but that this practice had presumably been cleared with the Westminster Government.
		He could not remember whether the Westminster Government had forced the ban on parades, as a sort of political quid pro quo for the introduction of Internment, but said that the ban was the only sensible option, given the security context.
		He confirmed that the thinking of the Stormont Government at the time was that it would find itself in ‘serious trouble’ in relation to Westminster if the situation did not improve, but could not recall formally briefing the Consul.
	www.birw.org /bsireports/51_70/report60.html (9223 words)

	Slugger O'Toole: James Callaghan
		The troops were brought in over the heads of the Stormont government, and to the objections of same.
		Faulkner brought in internment because the Stormont government was in charge of security; it was a devolved matter.
		Stormont had requested troops earlier but wanted control of how they were used.
	www.sluggerotoole.com /archives/2005/03/james_callaghan.php (3890 words)

	Britain: Conservative government considered "forcible resettlement" of Northern Ireland in 1972
		Since Ireland’s partition in 1921, the Stormont government had upheld British rule in the North through granting marginal privileges to Protestant workers, savage discrimination to their Catholic counterparts and the maintenance of an atmosphere of continual emergency.
		The Wilson government utilised the violence as a pretext for dispatching British troops, supposedly to protect the Catholic population.
		Within Ireland, the massacre provided a wave of recruits to the provisional IRA, a three-day siege of the British embassy in Dublin, panic in the Irish government of Jack Lynch, and led directly to the collapse of the Stormont government of Brian Faulkner.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/jan2003/ire-j11_prn.shtml (848 words)

	Guardian \| Stormont near collapse as Sinn Fein man appears in court on spy charges
		Northern Ireland's power-sharing government teetered on the brink of collapse last night as the crisis over alleged IRA spies at the heart of the Northern Ireland Office reached new heights.
		As the row intensified, it seemed Mr Blair might be left with no choice but to suspend the Stormont government.
		Mr Trimble, who dubbed the scandal "bigger than Watergate", said: "The IRA and Sinn Fein officials were stealing government documents, using them to spy on people they are sitting in government with.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4516483-103685,00.html (819 words)

	CAIN: Abstract of Important Events - Prorogation of Stormont, 28 March 1972
		This was unacceptable to the Unionist controlled Northern Ireland Government and it prompted the British Government to suspend the Northern Ireland parliament at Stormont and assume "full and direct responsibility" (Edward Heath, the then British Prime Minister, 24 March 1972).
		Undoubtedly the Irish Republican Army (IRA) saw the introduction of 'Direct Rule' as a victory for nationalists and something which, from their point of view, highlighted the real cause of the conflict, that is, British control of a partitioned island.
		In the 'zero sum' game of Northern Ireland politics the prorogation of the Stormont Government represented the greatest blow to the Protestant psyche in 50 years.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /events/abstract/72storm.htm (346 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| So just who is Lord Hutton?
		The future of the government and the BBC may well be in his hands.
		He continued in crown service when the Stormont regime was abolished, playing a lead role in Britain's failed attempts to defend its ill-treatment of internees at the European court of human rights.
		In other cases, he has backed the government line; he was one of the law lords who ruled that David Shayler, the former MI5 agent, could not argue that his revelation of secrets was in the public interest.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /kelly/story/0,13747,1009501,00.html (1787 words)

	Township of North Stormont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The purpose of this website is to provide you with information on our Township and the various services we provide.
		If you are unable to find what you are looking for on these pages, please contact us at the numbers or addresses listed and we will be pleased to help you.
		Whether you are a long-time resident or a visitor, we wish you a pleasant stay in North Stormont.
	www.townshipofnorthstormont.on.ca (79 words)

	Harrison Library - Stock Photo and Image Library
		Stormont, Government Buildings, architecture, Politics, photo, photograph, stormont castle
		Photo of the exterior of Stormont Castle, which is situated in the grounds of Stormont, Dundonald,
		Photo of Stormont Castle, exterior, which is situated in the grounds of Stormont, Dundonald, Northern Ireland
	www.harrisonsphotos.com /library/getimgs.cfm?Cat=53 (199 words)

	Omagh Memory - Politics and power
		The majority had several Nationalist members of the Stormont Government and Senate, plus two Nationalist members at Westminster but they were in practice almost totally impotent politically.
		Unhappily, it also had the worst of government in terms of civil rights with the majority population deprived of their proportionate share of local government votes through gerrymandering by the ruling Unionist Party.
		Although the U.K. Parliament was constitutionally supreme, Stormont jealously guarded its jurisdiction over internal affairs and when Nationalist grievances, such as bias to the allocation of houses and jobs, was raised with the British Home Secretary by Nationalist M.P.s his stock answer was to outline Stormont's constitutional responsibility and decline to comment further.
	www.yourmemories.co.uk /memories/county/tyrone/smyth18_omagh.asp (1505 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| N Ireland \| Trimble issues Sinn Fein ultimatum
		The Ulster Unionist Party is to pull out of power sharing in Northern Ireland within a week unless the government proposes the expulsion of Sinn Fein from the executive.
		Arriving in Bournemouth for the Conservative Party conference, he told reporters that a government suspension of the assembly would be "a second best".
		He said it was time for unionists like those in his party to put Sinn Fein out of government in the way the "weak-kneed" British Government and Ulster Unionist Party had refused to do.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/uk_news/northern_ireland/2310455.stm (755 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Stormont crisis deepens as Sinn Fein pair appear in court on spy charges
		Mr Donaldson was charged with having personal details of soldiers, including the general officer commanding of Northern Ireland, Sir Alistair Irwin, details of a police officer, documents about loyalists, a sketch of Castle Building, Stormont and a confidential government document, all said to be useful to terrorists.
		A detective inspector said that the documents were found in a rucksack in the defendant's house and forensic examination of these papers and a vast quantity of other material was still going on.
		Northern Ireland's power-sharing government teetered on the brink of collapse last night as the Ulster Unionist leader, David Trimble, seems almost certain to walk out.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,806036,00.html (838 words)

	Guardian \| Adams warns Blair over Stormont
		The Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams, today warned Tony Blair that it would be a "mistake" to suspend the power-sharing government in Northern Ireland following allegations of an IRA spying ring at Stormont.
		Following crisis talks with the prime minister in Downing Street, Mr Adams said suspending the Stormont executive and assembly would not resolve the current difficulties in the peace process.
		He stressed the continuing commitment of the British government to the Good Friday agreement, but warned republicans that they could not continue to sit in Stormont, while at the same time engaging in paramilitary activities.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4521432-103588,00.html (471 words)

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