Harold Wilson, then the Leader of the Opposition in the Commons, reiterated his belief that a united Ireland was the only possible solution to Northern Ireland's Troubles.

Ireland's railways are in State ownership, with Iarnród Éireann ( Irish Rail ) operating services in the Republic and NI Railways operating services in Northern Ireland.

Irish leaders expected that it would so reduce Northern Ireland's size, by transferring nationalist areas to the Irish Free State, as to make it economically unviable.

The Republic of Ireland's constitution was altered by referendum and its territorial claim to Northern Ireland was dropped.

* 1974 – Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.

Scotland's and Northern Ireland's licensing laws have long been more flexible, allowing local authorities to set pub opening and closing times.

In Northern Ireland, the largest Pro-Belfast Agreement party, Sinn Féin, not only advocates Northern Ireland's unification with the Republic of Ireland, but also abstains from taking their elected seats in the Westminster government, as this would entail taking a pledge of allegiance to the British monarch.

Heathrow Airport is the world's second busiest international airport, Northern Ireland's roads are overseen by the Roads Service Northern Ireland, a section of the Department for Regional Development.

Two of Northern Ireland's main ports are in County Antrim, Larne and Belfast.

The Port of Belfast is Northern Ireland's principal maritime gateway, serving the Northern Ireland economy and increasingly that of the Republic of Ireland.

Around two thirds of Northern Ireland's seaborne trade, and a quarter of that for Ireland as a whole, is handled at the port which receives over 6, 000 vessels each year.

This would be Paraguay's last finals appearance until 1986, Northern Ireland's last until 1982, and Austria's last until 1978.

Many of Northern Ireland's traditional industries, notably linen and shipbuilding, were in recession.

Policing Northern Ireland's divided society proved difficult, as each community ( nationalist and unionist ) had different attitudes towards the institutions of the state.

Northern Ireland's Catholics, overwhelmingly nationalists, had been told by their leaders that Partition was temporary.

The latest incarnation of the Assembly was established under the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, an accord aimed at bringing an end to Northern Ireland's violent 30-year Troubles.

It is based on the principle of power-sharing under the D ' Hondt method to ensure that Northern Ireland's largest political communities, the unionist and nationalist communities both participate in governing the region.

The UVF's declared goals were to combat Irish republicanism – particularly republican paramilitaries, and to maintain Northern Ireland's status as part of the United Kingdom.

The UVF's goal was to combat Irish republicanism – particularly the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) – and maintain Northern Ireland's status as part of the United Kingdom.

Northern Ireland's two main communities are its Irish nationalist / republican community ( who mainly self-identify as Irish and / or Catholic ) and its unionist / loyalist community ( who mainly self-identify as British and / or Protestant ).

* Stuart Robinson host of Northern Ireland's Young Star Search and presenter on Cool FM.

** Central Austro-Bavarian ( along the main rivers Isar and Danube, spoken in the northern parts of the State of Salzburg, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, and the Northern Burgenland )

As Moism lost support by the time of the Han, the main philosophical contenders were Legalism, which Confucian thought somewhat absorbed, the teachings of Lao-tzu, whose focus on more mystic ideas kept it from direct conflict with Confucianism, and the new Buddhist religion, which gained acceptance during the Southern and Northern Dynasties era.

Its main targets are the security forces of Northern Ireland.

The majority of islands are low coral atolls in the Northern Group, with Rarotonga, a volcanic island in the Southern Group, as the main administration and government centre.

Their grievances were against the two main Northern Territory employers: Vestey ’ s Meatworks and the federal government.

This charter, along with Hamburg's proximity to the main trade routes of the North Sea and Baltic Sea, quickly made it a major port in Northern Europe.

Two of the three main airports in Northern Ireland are privately operated and owned.

In June 1862, in his most successful move, Davis assigned General Robert E. Lee to replace the wounded Joseph E. Johnston in command of the Army of Northern Virginia, the main Confederate Army in the Eastern Theater.

Karachi has several large industrial zones such as Karachi Export Processing Zone, SITE, Korangi, Northern Bypass Industrial Zone, Bin Qasim and North Karachi, located on the fringes of the main city.

Today these are three main schemes operating in Ireland, although ValueClub has been withdrawn from Dunnes ' Northern Ireland stores.

This, combined with the harsh treatment of Guamanian Chamorros during the 31-month occupation, created a rift that would become the main reason Guamanians rejected the reunification referendum approved by the Northern Marianas in the 1960s.

The main chain is long and has smaller branches that extend to the west and die out along the banks of the Río Paraguay in the Northern Upland.

The Cordilleras and Caraballos, together with the Sierra Madre Range, form the main mountain system in Northern Luzon.

During the Middle Ages, Parma became an important stage of the Via Francigena, the main road connecting Rome to Northern Europe ; several castles, hospitals and inns were built in the following centuries to host the increasing number of pilgrims who passed by Parma and Fidenza, following the Apennines via Collecchio, Berceto and the Corchia ranges before descending the Passo della Cisa into Tuscany, heading finally south toward Rome.

At the funeral for a child murdered by the Real IRA in Omagh she symbolically walked up the main aisle of the church hand-in-hand with the Ulster Unionist Party leader and then First Minister of Northern Ireland, David Trimble, MP.

It is about closer to destinations east of the Suez than the ports of Northern Europe, and the land transport from Koper by road and by railway to the main industrial centres in Central Europe is approximately shorter than from Northern European ports.

The southern, oil rich and prosperous Khuzestan and Basra area ( the main focus of the war, and the primary source of their economies ) were almost completely destroyed and were left at the pre 1979 border, while Iran managed to make some small gains on its borders in the Northern Kurdish area.

Thai cuisine is more accurately described as four regional cuisines corresponding to the four main regions of the country: Northern, Northeastern ( or Isan ), Central, and Southern, each cuisine sharing similar foods or foods derived from those of neighboring countries and regions: Burma to the northwest, the Chinese province of Yunnan and Laos to the north, Vietnam and Cambodia to the east and Malaysia to the south of Thailand.

* Shelly Tambo, one of the main fictional characters in the American television series Northern Exposure

One of the sub-plots in this novel ( on occupying the Siberian " Northern Resource Area ") would later form part of the main plot of Clancy's later novel The Bear and the Dragon.

The concept of dividing pre-historical ages into systems based on metals extends far back in European history, but the present archaeological system of the three main ages: stone, bronze and iron, originates with the Danish archaeologist Christian Jürgensen Thomsen ( 1788 – 1865 ), who placed the system on a more scientific basis by typological and chronological studies, at first of tools and other artifacts present in the Museum of Northern Antiquities in Copenhagen ( later the National Museum of Denmark ).

Virginia's economy has many sectors: agriculture in the Shenandoah Valley ; federal agencies in Northern Virginia, including the headquarters of the Department of Defense and CIA ; and military facilities in Hampton Roads, the site of the region's main seaport.

** In Northern Ireland, the four main political parties begins talks on restoring self-government.

Today Sassari is the main cultural, administrative and historical centre of Northern Sardinia.