"The choice for Northern Ireland politicians now is devolution or dissolution,"

Party Seats
DUP 36 "Protestant"
SF 28 "Catholic"
UUP 18 "Protestant"
SDLP 16 "Catholic"
Other seats for smaller parties, including 7 for a party that is neither perceived as Catholic or Protestant.

I will quote some articles from the BBC website and from the Belfast Telegraph to make my life easier. Too lazy today!
"We've now had 35 election or referendum campaigns in 34 years. If you are asked to vote that frequently, it is hardly a sign that you live in a successful democracy.
Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party has emerged as the largest party in Northern Ireland's Assembly election.
Secretary of State Peter Hain has warned he needs an answer from the parties in a fortnight if the 26 March deadline for devolution is to be met.
He said the assembly would close if they did not sign up to power-sharing.
If a power-sharing executive is formed it will have four DUP ministers, three Sinn Fein, two UUP and one SDLP."

The Northern Ireland Assembly has been suspended since October 2002, amid allegations of an IRA spy ring at Stormont. A subsequent court case collapsed. Direct rule has been in place since that date. (Suspended many times before this last).
The easy part is done- the election; the impossible mission is now to get Paisley to share the power with Gerry Adams and his Sinn Féin party, which, according to Paisley, is a club of IRA men. (It's worth checking out some information on the lives of these two men!)