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The wife of Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble is to try to unseat Paisleyite and former UUP rebel Jeffrey Donaldson at the next Westminster election.

At last, the DUP has been smoked out, fundamentalist unionism exposed to the world.

There has been concern in Derry after unionist paramilitary feuding broke out in a gun attack at a pub in the city.

The British government has been warned against any attempt to water down an inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane.

A deal to restore the suspended Belfast Assembly and power-sharing institutions in the North of Ireland appears to be getting closer following three days of intensive all-party negotiations in southern England and further talks in Belfast this week.

Irish President Mary McAleese is set to serve another seven year term as no other candidate has emerged to challenge her re-election.

Speaking at a news conference in London this morning, Sinn Féin Vice-President Pat Doherty outlined his party’s view of the course of events preceding and during the intensive talks at Leeds Castle this past weekend.

By Brian Feeney (for the Irish News)

Writing in Monday’s Irish Times (see above) Gerry Adams asserted that “The DUP represents the anti-agreement minority of the electorate.” Hmm. That’s only if you think the UUP is united in its support for the agreement. It isn’t. Let’s not forget the dozen convocations of backwoodsmen that dissident UUP members like Jeffrey Donaldson called to stymie the agreement’s progress. Remember, Trimble usually managed only a 54% vote at those meetings and that only because each time he was driven further away from his obligations under the agreement.