IRA Withdraws Offer to Scrap N.Irish Arsenal
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Northern Ireland's tortuous peace process was dealt a fresh blow on Wednesday when the Irish Republican Army (IRA) withdrew an offer to scrap the arsenal which sustained its 30-year campaign against British rule.
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"The dissidents are not a worthy target for a military force"  The final British troops withdrew Monday from the Northern Ireland borderland long known as 'bandit country,' ending a 37-year mission to keep watch over the Irish Republican Army's most dangerous power base.Soldiers from the second battalion of the Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment left Bessbrook Mill in what their commander, Col. Wayne Harber, called a final act in 'the longest military campaign in the army's history.''We are pleased to be going and that the peace process is progressing. Soldiers know the importance of peace more than anybody else,' Harber said. Read more
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Three days of intensive Anglo-Irish talks ended without full agreement yesterday, but with the prospect of a significant move by the IRA on the issue of its arsenal.
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LEEDS CASTLE, England  - Northern Ireland's  feuding political leaders reported progress but no breakthrough  on Friday at talks aimed at brokering a deal which would see  the Irish Republican Army (IRA) effectively disband.
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Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley has severed contact with the Dublin Government as the row over IRA disarmament deepened. Mr Paisley&#39;s move, after Taoiseach Bertie Ahern appeared to concede photographic
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LEEDS CASTLE, England  - A deal taking shape Friday in negotiations on Northern Ireland's future would require the outlawed Irish Republican Army to resume disarmament and issue a new statement that, for the first time, would definitively renounce violence.
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The IRA agrees to allow a Protestant and a Catholic churchman to witness the decommissioning of  its weapons, the BBC learns.
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DUBLIN -- Prime Minister Bertie Ahern urged Irish Republican Army commanders yesterday to meet what he acknowledged was ''a heavy burden&quot;: disarming and disbanding their organization in support of Northern Ireland's 1998 peace accord.
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The IRA must disband before a deal can be struck to restore Northern Irelandâs political institutions, Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley said today.
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Rival Protestant and Catholic parties fought for concessions on IRA disarmament and British troop withdrawals Monday amid a flurry of efforts
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A standoff over how the scrapping of IRA arms is proved looks set to dash hopes of a landmark deal in Northern Ireland on Wednesday, when Britain and Ireland plan to
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Gerry Adams, leader of Northern Ireland&#39;s largest nationalist party, signaled that an accord on paramilitary weapons was unlikely to be announced, reducing the chances the province&#39;s
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BELFAST: A decade after the Irish Republican Army&#39;s (IRA) first ceasefire came into force, negotiations open in Northern Ireland today aimed at reaching a deal to stand down the guerrilla group.
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DUBLIN -- The Irish Republican Army yesterday withdrew its offer to disarm, deepening the deadlock in a Northern Ireland peace process already hobbled by the IRA's alleged robbery of a Belfast bank.
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The Irish Republican Army has reopened negotiations with Northern Ireland's disarmament chief, the outlawed group said Tuesday, signaling its readiness to put more weapons out of commission for the first time in over a year.
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Investment group Olivant said Monday it had withdrawn from the running to offer a rescue package for troubled British bank Northern Rock, shortly before the deadline expired for bids to be presented.
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The DUP will say today that it cannot sign up to the proposed peace deal because the IRA still has not revealed its intentions on decommissioning.