"Seamus Mallon, MP" first Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland (1999-2001). Deputy Leader of the SDLP (1979-2001).

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"Seamus Frederick Mallon" (born 17 August 1936) is an Irish people/Irish politician who was the first First Minister and deputy First Minister/deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2001. He was also the Social Democratic and Labour Party/Deputy Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party from 1979 to 2001.

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It is time to shed them now and raise our eyes into the future.

Let me describe it as a momentous meeting. It was a good, workman-like meeting.

I trust it will be done soon, I hope it will be done soon.

She has been a breath of fresh air -- an immensely successful Secretary of State.

Permutation after permutation has been tried. We have tried, and I have tried every move -- in the book and outside it -- to make sure this agreement worked.

We are getting near to the stage where hardball will be played.

Those who did it, those who organized it and those who give it any support or credence should know what they are doing is driving the entire community to the brink of more and more and more suffering.