The deal that could transform politics in Northern Ireland
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. Today it was one of the biggest political headaches thrown up by Brexit. |
| 0:15.0 | This week how a deal was finally done to get power sharing in Northern Ireland back on track. It can be tricky to be healthy whilst balancing whatever life throws your way. |
| 0:37.0 | A healthy mind is just as important as a healthy body. |
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| 0:47.0 | then slowly exhale for the same length of time. |
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| 1:08.0 | After a boycott lasting 726 days. On Monday, on a freezing stormy evening with protesters gathering outside. |
| 1:18.0 | The leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, Jeffrey Donaldson, convened his colleagues at a venue in County Down to decide, whether to put the Northern Irish government at Stormont back to work. |
| 1:35.0 | And it went on for hours and hours and hours. There was additional drama by the fact that |
| 1:42.1 | it was being supposed to be a confidential |
| 1:44.2 | private meeting but somebody was had appeared to be wearing a wire and they |
| 1:49.8 | were transmitting it to one of Jeffrey's's biggest critics and he was live |
| 1:54.5 | tweeting the whole event minute by minute. And so when eventually Jeffrey |
| 1:59.7 | Donaldson emerged after midnight a lot of the press pack there thought it's all gone |
| 2:04.6 | pear shaped that I mean the meeting's gone on for five hours you know had he stuck's |
| 2:09.9 | lined up in a road should not have taken so long. I want to make a statement first of all and then happy to take some questions. |
| 2:17.0 | In February 20- |
| 2:19.0 | But, surprise, surprise, he announces that in fact the executive of the party have endorsed his deal. |
| 2:25.6 | I am pleased to report that the party executive has now endorsed the proposals |
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