The Northern Ireland Executive was likened to Star Trek's Starship Enterprise in being 'tasked to go where man has not gone before', newly-released statepapers from 1999 have revealed.
, there were also worries in 1999 that mandatory coalition could simply lead to political inertia.
For instance, over nine days between 4 and 12 July 1998, there were 598 attacks - 19 of which involved shooting and 42 were bombing incidents - on security forces, which injured 70 police officers. Twenty-nine people, including a woman pregnant with twins, died in the bombing which was the biggest loss of civilian life in a single incident in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.
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