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UUP leader Doug Beattie (left) speaking to the media in the great hall following his meeting with Congressman Richard Neal at Parliament Buildings, Stormont, Belfast (Brian Lawless/PA)
On 24 November 2006, Michael Stone (a loyalist paramilitary member) was arrested for breaking into Stormont with an imitation handgun and a knife, and scrawling graffiti on Parliament Buildings itself. [19] Initial news reports indicated that he may have been carrying a "suspect device". Later, between six and eight pipe bombs were defused by ...
Map of the Stormont Estate showing the location of prominent buildings. The Stormont Estate is an estate in the east of Belfast in Northern Ireland.It is the site of Northern Ireland's main Parliament Buildings, which is surrounded by woods and parkland, and is often referred to in contemporary media as the metonym "Stormont".
The Commons met in the college's Gamble Library and the Senate in the chapel. In 1932, Parliament moved to the new purpose-built Parliament Buildings, designed by Sir Arnold Thornely, at Stormont, on the eastern outskirts of the city. "Stormont" came to be a synecdoche referring both to the Parliament itself and to the Northern Ireland government.
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In his statement Donaldson described the alleged Sinn Féin spy ring in Stormont as "a scam and a fiction". [2] Adams has asserted that both the planned leaking of Donaldson's name as an informer and the original Stormontgate allegations were engineered by the security forces to discredit Sinn Féin and cause a crisis in the peace process. [3]
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