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The rewording of Ireland's 1937 constitution to delete the claim, which was approved at a special cabinet meeting, was a vital element of an accord designed to end centuries of violence on the troubled island. It was the latest in a series of measures toward peace which this week have included the establishment of a power-sharing government of Protestants and Catholics to take over the day-to-day running of the province's affairs. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern hailed the swift march toward peace. "Every Irish person is entitled to feel a great sense of pride today in what we have been able to achieve together in bringing about peace throughout Ireland," Ahern said in Dublin. "This is an historic day," Blair said in London. "Power in Northern Ireland has been returned to its people." Dublin's move, designed to ease fears among the province's pro-British Protestants of being forced into a united Ireland, came a day after Britain's parliament approved laws to end 27 years of direct rule from London. The Irish Republican Army (IRA), which suspended its guerrilla war against British rule two years ago, was expected to add another piece to the jigsaw later Thursday by opening talks about disarmament. |
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I've been trialling a new author - Marian Keyes, shes irish and funny. Her books make me laugh out loud. |
The old woman thinks, "Say, that Englishman must have tried to make a move on that blonde and got slapped. Good for her." The blonde thinks, "Oh, the Englishman must have made a move for me, but fondled that old woman by mistake and she slapped him, poor thing." The Englishman thinks, "Hey, that Irishman must have gone for the blonde, and she slapped me by mistake!" The Irishman thinks, "Boy, I hope we go through another tunnel so I can wallop that English fecker again!" |
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