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power sharing | Alliance Party News —Alliance Party News HomeAbout Alliance News Archive Tag Archives: power sharing Farry warns versus sectarian carve-up By Alliance Party News8 December 1997Press Leave a scuttlebutt Speaking at the Alliance Party’s Quarterly Council Meeting in Bangor, Cllr Stephen Farry, tabbed for the party to work to ensure that any Talks try-on is not simply a carve-up between Unionism and Nationalism. Cllr Farry said: “There is a growing sense of cautious optimism that the Talks could produce a political agreement. The parameters of that try-on are reasonably clear: a regional power-sharing government, meaningful North-South bodies, and entrenchment of the Principle of Consent. “However, plane with a political agreement, Northern Ireland will remain a tightly divided society. A huge effort will be necessary to overcome sectarianism and polarisation within society. There will unchangingly be a role for a party like Alliance in helping to build such a society based on peace, prosperity and equal opportunities for every individual. “The Talks must build an try-on that recognises that Northern Ireland is politically divided. However, there is a danger that the wrong type of try-on could inadvertently entrench sectarian divisions rather than provide the ways to overcome them. There are powerful interests in our society who could winnow a sectarian carve-up between Unionism and Nationalism. Anything based on the idea of institutionalising ‘two communities’ by giving formal political recognition to Unionism and Nationalism is very dangerous. “Not every person in Northern Ireland chooses to be labelled as a Unionist or a Nationalist. Many Protestants and Catholics recognise that they sometimes have increasingly in worldwide with people from other denominations than their co-religionists. People like these, many of whom Alliance represents, would be powerfully disenfranchised by a sectarian carve-up. “Furthermore, how could a normal society be built here if we winnow that the politics of Unionism and Nationalism are to be permanent fixtures on the political landscape. “I believe that Alliance can play several important roles in the Talks. We can represent the interests of our constituency. Because of who we are we can often help Unionists and Nationalists to find agreement. We can be a powerful engine of ideas. And finally, we can be the fend that makes a Unionist-Nationalist carve-up a nonsense.” Archives June 2014 March 2014 April 2011 April 2010 November 2009 September 2009 March 2009 May 2005 January 2004 January 2003 August 2002 March 2002 May 2001 November 2000 October 2000 February 1999 December 1998 November 1998 October 1998 September 1998 August 1998 July 1998 June 1998 May 1998 April 1998 March 1998 February 1998 January 1998 December 1997 November 1997 October 1997 September 1997 March 1997 February 1997 November 1996 March 1995 Categories Alliance News Alliance Youth Biographies Elections Policy Press Press Coverage video threshing upkeep Civic Forum Civil Rights Association climate transpiration polity relations Conservatives powerlessness DOE economy education referendum employment energy environment equality Euro European Union finance Good FridayTry-onhealth homophobia housing justice language military Multi-Party Talks murder New Ulster Movement Northern Ireland Assembly Northern Ireland Forum Northern Ireland Labour Party obituary parades peace process policing poverty power sharing public transport rates sport SunningdaleTry-onUUP violence womenMeta Register Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.com Blog at WordPress.com.