(8 May 2007) SHOTLIST
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1. Deputy leader of Sinn Fein, Martin McGuinness, walking towards steps of Northern Ireland Assembly building
2. McGuinness going through door, shaking hands with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and others
3. Mid of leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Ian Paisley getting out of car
4. Paisley walking into building
POOL
5. Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain arriving and making the thumbs up signal on steps
POOL
6. Media outside Northern Ireland Assembly building
POOL
7. US Senator Ted Kennedy arriving
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8. Various of police and security personnel outside Northern Ireland Assembly building
9. Hain and Speaker of the Assembly, Eileen Bell, waiting for British Prime Minister Tony Blair to arrive
10. Various of Blair and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern arriving and greeting Hain and Bell
11. Wide of Assembly
12. Adams speaking
13. Bell sitting as Speaker of the Assembly
14. Cutaway of members of Assembly
15. Wide of Assembly
16. Paisley standing UPSOUND: "I affirm the terms of the pledge of office as set out in Schedule 4 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998."
17. Wide of Assembly with Paisley sitting down UPSOUND: "I now ask Martin McGuinness as Deputy First Minister designate to make the affirmation in the form prescribed, Mr McGuinness."
18. McGuinness standing to speak UPSOUND: (McGuinness speaks first in Irish then English) (in English) "I affirm the terms of the pledge of office as set out in Schedule 4 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998."
19. Wide of Assembly, close-up of Paisley and McGuinness UPSOUND: "I now confirm that the Right Honourable Dr Ian Paisley and Mr Martin McGuinness has affirmed the terms of the pledge of office, having taken up office as First Minister and Deputy First Minister in accordance with the Northern Ireland St Andrews Agreement Act 2006)
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20. Blair, Paisley, Ahern, Hain and McGuinness entering meeting
21. Various of meeting
22. High wide of ceremony in the grand foyer of Stormont Parliamentary Building with Blair, Paisley, Ahern, Hain and McGuinness at top of stairs looking down at dignitaries
23. Mid of Blair and Paisley
24. Dignitaries assembled at ceremony
25. Blair, Paisley, Ahern, Hain and McGuinness walking down stairs
26. Pan along Ahern, Blair, Paisley, McGuinness and Paisley
27. Assembly members including Adams on edge smiling and then looking down
STORYLINE
Protestant leader Ian Paisley, who spent decades refusing to cooperate with Northern Ireland's Catholic minority, was elected on Tuesday to oversee a power-sharing administration alongside his longtime Sinn Fein foes.
The unopposed election of Democratic Unionist Party chief Paisley and Irish Republican Army veteran Martin McGuinness to lead a new 12-member administration heralded an astonishing new era for Northern Ireland following decades of bloodshed and political stalemate that left 3,700 dead.
81-year-old Paisley immediately affirmed an oath pledging to cooperate with Catholics and the government of the neighbouring Republic of Ireland, moves that the evangelical firebrand had long denounced as surrender.
Seconds later, Sinn Fein deputy leader McGuinness accepted the number 2 post of deputy first minister.
56-year-old McGuinness affirmed the same oath, which required all ministers to support the Northern Ireland police and British courts, a position that Sinn Fein refused for decades to accept.
Within a few more minutes, all 12 power-sharing positions were filled on the basis of how many seats each party holds in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
McGuinness did not manage an audible peep.

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