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Tue 05 May 2007Stormont ceremony marks end of Northern conflictThe Rev Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness today mark the end of almost four decades of bitter and bloody conflict in Northern Ireland when they are formally appointed first minister and deputy first minister.Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and British prime minister Tony Blair will be in the visitors' gallery of Parliament Buildings, Stormont this morning to witness the creation of a powersharing government led by political polar opposites the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin.