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But the producer said it failed to inspire the euphoria of the ceasefire announcements last year The mood of the Dublin papers was “give peace a chance” But a senior journalist said there was little triumphalism.. a feeling that the days of the knee-jerk reaction have passed,” Mr Curran said.Joan Boyd, editor of BBC Radio Ulster’s Talkback, said while the phone- in show had devoted two days to the document, “people in Northern Ireland are not totally and utterly obssessed by politics – it’s not simply a question of one side shouting `Green’ and the other `Orange’.”The Catholic morning daily, the Irish News, heralded the framework document as a “Key to Door of Peace”.In the Republic, RTE’s Pat Kenny Show has spent two days debating the declaration. Last night, the paper ran the banner “Ulster responds”, following it with six pages of reaction from the public and victims of violence.”The reaction has been coloured by the backdrop and that is peace There is therefore a much more tempered response. While the document was made available at post offices across the North,newspapers, radio and television cleared pages and airtime for detailed discussion.
“No Way” was the trenchant response of the Unionist daily, the Newsletter. Edmund Curran, editor of the moderately Unionist Belfast Telegraph, believed the document was too complex for people to appreciate in summary The paper therefore printed a full text.

This is partly because progress is said to have been made, and partly because the Government is keen to arrange a meeting before the Northern Ireland investment conference, to be hosted by President Bill Clinton, in May.. A former Unionist mayor, Marlene Jefferson, rang into the Groundwork programme on Londonderry’s Radio Foyle last week, suggesting that when the Framework Document was published, it might an idea if the media shut down for two weeks to allow the people to read it and decide for themselves

No such luck. Ministers will be keen to keep such lines of communication open and eventu ally to develop a wider agenda.The Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has set the tone for his party’s annual conference by commending the document’s “all-Ireland character.” The grass-roots appear to have responded well, weakening the hands of IRA hardliners who would favour an end to theceasefire.Ministers are expected to meet Sinn Fein representatives for the first time within the next few months, following a series of meetings between republican delegations and senior civil servants. A return to violence is seen as very much a last resort.There is already much speculation about the future of Mr Molyneaux’s leadership, with a widespread judgement that he mishandled the run-up to the document before disappearing from view on Wednesday.The man most frequently tipped to take over is the East Londonderry MP, William Ross, who in Unionist terms is a hardliner and has long been presumed to be Mr Molyneaux’s probable choice as his successor.In the meantime, ministers may be expected to sustain a strong effort to persuade both Unionist politicians and the grassroots that the document should be viewed as an opportunity rather than a danger.Unionist MPs have already said they are not prepared to talk to the Government about the document, but are prepared to discuss their own proposals for the future. Their attitude will be influenced by the collective judgement of the Protestant community as it emerges in the next few days.Loyalist paramilitaries clearly disapprove of much of the document, but there is no sign of any move to end the ceasefire. There have been threats of a campaign to bring down the Government, though many observers question whether Unionists would dare deliberately to bring in a new Labour government.

Between the mid-Eighties and last year, Mr Paisley and the Ulster Unionist leader James Molyneaux had a close relationship, but this broke up when the former described the latter as “a Judas Iscariot”.One early test of Unionist resolve will be their actions in next Wednesday’s Commons European vote. UUP MPs and party officers are to meet in Belfast today for further talks.One option for the party is to opt for a closer association with Mr Paisley. Most immediately, attention will be concentrated on the Unionist community, which over the weekend will be digesting the complicated contents of the document and formulating a collective response to it.
Its political leaders have already spoken – the Rev Ian Paisley denouncing the document as the road to a united Ireland, while the Ulster Unionist MPs were angry but less focused in their reaction. As things stand, Graham is still able to take up another job in football Graham disgraced, page 40. Publication of the Framework Document has set the scene for an intensification in the next few months of an already bustling Anglo-Irish political scene in Belfast, London and Dublin. However, the inquiry said: “We have great diffculty in accepting that Mr Graham did not know that the payments derived directly from the transfer fees paid by Arsenal.”
As the inquiry team have no powers to make any form of punishment, or, indeed, recommend any course of action, they have passed their findings to the Football Association. The Premier League inquiry panel yesterday unveiled its findings into the allegations that George Graham, the former Arsenal manager, benefited from the transfers of John Jensen and Pal Lydersen.

Graham was found to have received a total of £425,500 from a Norwegian agent, Rune Hauge, in two installments. A sum of £140,500 in cash was deposited in a Dublin bank account in December 1991, while the second payment, in August 1992, was transferred to an account in Guernsey. Graham told the inquiryt he thought the payments were “unsolicited gifts”. These profits have been earned by swingeing cuts in services to consumers …