IRA and UDA 'held secret talks'
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Secret talks between the UDA and Provisional IRA 30 years ago are revealed in Cabinet papers.
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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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Loyalist paramiltaries, the UDA, deny having any prior knowledge of Michael Stone's attack at Stormont.
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Talks aimed at forging a new peace deal in Northern Ireland have opened with a hint of acrimony as the main Catholic party arrived with a bug it said had been planted at its offices by British spies.
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Claim of secret talks broadcast as Syria accuses Israel of targeting Hamas member in Damascus. &quot;The political leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas has said that it has had secret contacts with the
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The Irish Republican Army (IRA) warned  British and Irish governments on Thursday not to underestimate  the seriousness of a fresh breakdown in efforts to secure a  lasting political settlement between Northern Ireland's feuding  communities.
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Empey attacks on IRA arms issue. The British Government seems to be in the dark about what exactly the IRA will do to revive power-sharing in Northern Ireland, a senior Ulster Unionist claimed today.
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A decade after the Irish Republican  Army's (IRA) first cease-fire came into force, negotiations  open in Northern Ireland on Wednesday aimed at reaching a deal  to stand down the guerrilla group.
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Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern and Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army-linked party, argued face to face Tuesday about the IRA's alleged robbery of a Belfast bank.
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Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and former IRA commander Martin McGuinness will today talk face-to-face for the first time with a Northern Ireland Chief Constable.
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Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein leader, shook hands with Hugh Orde, the chief constable of the Northern Ireland police service, when they met in Downing Street.
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Joint British and Irish plans for ending the political stalemate were being presented by the two Prime Ministers to the DUP and Sinn Fein this afternoon.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland  - Sinn Fein, the  political ally of the IRA, cast doubt Saturday on whether a  deal to restore power-sharing in Northern Ireland could be  struck with its arch foes, led by firebrand cleric Ian Paisley,  at talks next week.
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Talks between Irish and British government officials and two of Northern Ireland's political parties, the DUP and Sinn Fein, adjourned in London last night.
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The Northern Ireland peace talks were on a knife-edge today after a dramatic Downing Street meeting between Chief Constable Hugh Orde and Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams.
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Moves to re-start Northern Ireland's moribund peace process shifted up a gear as Prime Minister Tony Blair held unprecedented talks with the chief of the province's once-Protestant dominated police and leaders of the Catholic Sinn Fein party.
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Unprecedented IRA disarmament is in the balance over a refusal by Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionists to compromise at the Northern Ireland peace talks.