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Fri 02 Feb 2010Deal to bring Alliance to the fore
The deal on policing devolution agreed by Sinn Féin and the DUP is set to propel the Alliance Party on to Northern Ireland’s political centre stage as the holder of the new justice ministry.
The complicated working out of the agreement will see the Assembly’s fifth largest party - and one that currently does not even have a seat in the power-sharing Cabinet - fill arguably its most significant post.
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