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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Lisa O'Carroll

Big changes needed to power sharing in Northern Ireland, says 70% of population

Stormont estate, Northern Ireland
The Stormont assembly has not sat for nine of the 25 years that have elapsed since the Belfast agreement was struck. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA

More than two-thirds of people in Northern Ireland believe big changes are required to the power-sharing institutions created by the Good Friday agreement, research commissioned by a parliamentary committee has found.

The same proportion of the population, 70%, think the peace accord of 1998 has failed to deliver stable governance with the Stormont assembly not sitting for nine of the 25 years that have elapsed since the Belfast agreement was struck.

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