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Northern Ireland‘s main Protestant Party, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Ian Paisley holds on to his hat at the St Andrew peace talks at the Fairmont hotel, Britain, Wednesday, 11 October 2006. Amid guarded optimism and plenty of warnings against failure, Northern Ireland‘s political parties Wednesday embarked on a last-ditch attempt to restore independent government institutions in the British province by a November 24 deadline. EPA/JAMES FRASER