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Sat 01 Jan 2010Why enforced powersharing is inherently unhealthy

INSIDE POLITICS:A system that betrays the centre ground in order to placate the North’s hardliners is wrong on every level, writes STEPHEN COLLINS

IN THE Seanad last Tuesday, Fiona O’Malley had the courage to echo the boy who pointed out that the emperor had no clothes when she queried the point of the interminable negotiations about the operation of the North’s political institutions.

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