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To: maceng2 who wrote (8873)	11/6/2001 1:56:19 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Angry scuffles as Trimble is re-elected I saw this on UK Tee Vee today. Incredible. It warms my heart to see reasonable debate and reasonable politicians win over the abominable sectarian A/H's who normally run Northern Ireland. Ian Paisely lost out. I spit in his face, not for being a protestant, but for inventing the word sectarian. Well done Trimble and supporters. With this type of progress, it can be shown that diplomatic efforts on terrorist activity can be a winner. It is what is requested in Northern Ireland by the majority. No doubt about it. ========================================================== David Trimble has been re-elected First Minister amid angry scenes Angry scuffles have broken out at Stormont after David Trimble and Mark Durkan were re-elected as First and Deputy First Minister. Police officers and security guards moved in to keep rival factions apart as furious nationalist and unionist politicians surged towards each other. Members of Ian Paisley's DUP and the nationalist SDLP had to be restrained as Mr Trimble vainly tried to speak to the press. His comments were drowned out by the jeers of "traitor" and "cheat" by members of the DUP, furious that Mr Trimble had been re-elected on the back of votes from the moderate Alliance Party. SDLP Assembly member Dr Alasdair McDonnell was pulled away by members of his party from the DUP's Paul Berry. Dr McDonnell said: "Somebody came lurching at me and I resisted his weight. I felt people coming at me then feet being kicked, elbows and jostling. All I was trying to do was defend myself and stay on my feet." Republicans were later drawn into the melee, with Sinn Fein chief whip Alex Maskey, a former boxer, involved in scuffle with anti-Agreement unionist members. DUP leader the Rev Ian Paisley claimed that a member of the SDLP provoked the ugly exchange by punching a member of his party. He said: "The time has come to name the people, whom they saw quite clearly start the trouble." Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness hit back, claiming "the DUP enjoyed themselves on Friday but they did not enjoy themselves today and that resulted in the unseemly scenes we saw today." ============================================================ Can't find the ananova link. Saw this on netscape. netscape.co.uk

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