For six years, the major political parties at Westminster have agreed that self—government shall not he restored to Ulster until Protestants and Catholics there agree to share power in a local parliament. Fifty years of Protestant supremacy was seen as enough.
But power—sharing has failed. The much—heralded demise of the provisional IRA has not taken place. And after a sweeping general election victory in the South, Ireland’s new Prime Minister, Jack Lynch, has restated his view that peace cannot come to the North until Britain withdraws. Both the main opposition parties in the South and the main Catholic party in the North, frustrated. by the lack of any British political initiative in Ulster have supported the Lynch statement. In effect, the political representatives of some 8O% of the island’s population are now broadly agreed on the aim of a federation of North and South.

09/03/1978
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