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Sat 03 Mar 2007North has just weeks to opt for devolution or dissolutionNorthern Ireland will be run by a majority unionist executive should DUP leader Ian Paisley take over the office of first and deputy first minister with Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness by the deadline of Monday fortnight, writes Gerry Moriarty, Northern Editor.British government ministers will now embark on an intensive round of carrot-and-stick negotiations with the parties, particularly with the Democratic Unionist Party, to create the conditions where devolution can be restored by March 26th.