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where there were numerous injuries. Long claimed that
Paisley and Bunting had not "threatened or hinted that their followers would cause any trouble in Derry", and claimed that Paisley's supporters had not participated in the violence. The
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families. He negotiated a small role for the state in
Catholic school governance in exchange for increasing state funding for those schools to cover all their costs. When in October 1968 students linked to the socialist group
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Out of politics, Long became the owner and skipper of a fishing boat, and also the Chief
Executive of the Northern Ireland Fish Producers' Association. In 1982, he chaired the
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imposed direct rule, Long protested that this was merely a political gambit, in exchange for
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The following week, People's Democracy organised a march in
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disputed this, and claimed that Long was being partisan.
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Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture
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