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Interview with Arlene Foster and John O’Dowd by Joel Taggart for BBC Radio Ulster The Nolan Show on 2 September 2013

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Audio interview with Arlene Foster, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Investment, and John O’Dowd, Northern Ireland Minister of Education, by Joel Taggart for BBC Radio Ulster The Nolan Show on 2 September 2013. During that summer tensions grew between nationalist and unionist communities on the issues of the Maze/Long Kesh peace centre, parades and commemoration of the past. In this interview Foster and O’Dowd discuss the workability of power-sharing in the Northern Ireland Executive following these events. The Nolan Show is a daily current affairs programme on BBC Radio Ulster.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 2 September 2013

Name of First Interviewee: Arlene Foster

Name of Second Interviewee: John O’Dowd

Role at time of Interview: Arlene Foster (Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Investment), John O’Dowd (Northern Ireland Minister of Education)

Interviewer: Joel Taggart

Purpose: News

Media: Audio

Copyright: BBC © 2013

Link: Click here

Programme/Book/Article: BBC Radio Ulster The Nolan Show

Time Period covered: 2013

Key Individuals: Arlene Foster, John O’Dowd, Peter Robinson, Martin McGuinness, Richard Haass

Key Words: DUP, Sinn Fein, power-sharing, Maze prison, parade

 

 

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