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By Monday, every British broadsheet was stressing the difficulties facing the peace settlement because of divisions within Sinn Fein and among the unionists, while the Guardian led its front page with a warning by Mitchell of increased terrorist violence at the time of the referendum.
The Irish News , a Roman Catholic paper based in Belfast, said in an editorial, "It was, by any standards, a testing weekend for Unionists and nationalists, and many difficulties still lie ahead, but the political process and a better future remain on course."
Protestant unionists rejected a plan to implement last year's peace accord on the grounds that the plan requires sharing power with the political wing of the still-armed Irish Republican Army.
In Dublin, the Irish Times quoted Mitchell as saying that sharing meals had been the key to the new rapprochement between the Catholic republicans and the Protestant Unionists.
On what is a make-or-break day for the Ulster peace talks, all the British broadsheets led with stories of British government optimism for a last minute settlement, despite the Ulster Unionists' firm rejection of the draft agreement submitted by Mitchell, the former U.S. senator who is mediating the talks.
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