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Group Leader Ends Irish Gov't Relations

Northern Ireland’s major Protestant party broke off relations with the Irish government Monday after Prime Minister Bertie Ahern indicated he had accepted the IRA’s refusal to provide photographs of disarmament. Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley said his British Protestant party would not talk with Ahern’s foreign minister or other officials during negotiations planned Wednesday for Hillsborough Castle near Belfast.Full Story