nationalist and overwhelmingly Catholic—
and the Ulster Defense Association and the Ulster Volunteer Force—unionist and overwhelmingly Protestant— though the British Army and the Royal Ulster Constabulary were involved in about 11 percent of deaths.
Even after the Good Friday Agreement, stable power sharing between Irish nationalists and Ulster unionists was slow to come. Finally, in 2005, the IRA destroyed its remaining substantial weapons cache under the watchful eyes of two clergymen and an international monitoring commission, and in 2007, under First Minister Rev.
Dr. Ian Paisley and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinnes (his coequal) a power-sharing Northern Ireland Assembly resumed its institutional existence.