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By Chris Andrews
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image captionIan Paisley made his famous never, never, never, never speech in opposition to the Anglo-Irish Agreement in 1985
Across 50 years, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has moved from dissent on the margins of politics to the heart of Northern Ireland s government.
Co-founded in September 1971 by the Reverend Ian Paisley, the party stood in opposition to republican violence and any involvement of the Irish government in Northern Ireland s affairs.
Down the years, the DUP helped topple other unionist leaders, accusing them of selling out by establishing power-sharing assemblies with nationalists and republicans or seeking further co-operation with the Republic of Ireland.
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Europe and the United States are stuck in the debate on Nord Stream 2. The disagreement over the Russian-German pipeline is more complex than many arguments made by various parties would suggest. It is not a clear-cut energy security issue, as it is sometimes presented: Nord Stream 2 would not inevitably increase the amount of Russian gas in Europe or Europe’s dependence on it, nor would it need to limit individual countries’ access to gas. Instead, the issue is a thorny one because it combines a multitude of considerations – from supply diversification to different countries’ business interests; from legal commitments to historical distrust and sanctions against allies’ projects – and spices them up with the political passions of the day.
I was 13 years old when the 10 Irish Republican hunger strikers began their protest against their conditions in prison, and the refusal of the British government, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to grant them a category of political prisoners. I watched with interest as Bobby Sands lasted for 66 days until his hunger strike killed him. It takes a lot of courage, and fortitute, to make it through a hunger strike until you die.
Bobby Sands died on May 5, 1981. The news of his death rang out across America, despite the fact that the British government and PM Thatcher wanted to keep it all quiet and hush hush.