Irish PM says chance for Northern Ireland peace too good to miss
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The current push to secure peace in Northern Ireland is too good an opportunity to miss through petty political point-scoring, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said.
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A high-stakes effort to revive a Catholic-Protestant government for Northern Ireland has ended in failure, but hope remains of an eventual breakthrough, the prime ministers of Britain and Ireland said yesterday.
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Northern Ireland's politicians must decide once and for all, within a few days, whether to unite to refloat the province's peace process, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said on Wednesday. "People want a decision," Ahern told reporters after talks with Britain's Tony Blair. "We have to call it within a matter of days."
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The DUP leader meets the prime minister to insist that photographic evidence of IRA disarmament is essential.
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Speaking after a meeting with the Irish Prime Minister in Dublin, party president Gerry Adams said: &quot;We are concerned that the time frame is stretching.
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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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A new round of Northern Ireland peace talks will begin this week with Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern meeting Sinn Fein and other Northern Ireland parties before having discussions with his British counterpart Tony Blair, the Irish government announced.
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Britain's Tony Blair said on Friday talks next week designed to restore a deal that shares power in Northern Ireland between the divided Protestant and Catholic communities were a final chance to salvage the accord.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has been offered the job as Middle East envoy, says Irish PM Bertie Ahern.
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The British and Irish Prime Ministers are due to meet Sinn Fein in a bid to overcome the latest obstacle in the peace process.
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The next few weeks will be critical for efforts to clinch a new Northern Ireland peace deal, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Monday.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland The prime ministers of Britain and Ireland say they&#39;re near a permanent peace in Northern Ireland. They&#39;ve released a detailed plan for reviving a Catholic-Protestant administration in Northern Ireland.
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LONDON -- After three months of intense talks aimed at breaking the deadlock in Northern Ireland's peace process, Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday laid out the framework for an agreement between the two sides that he said was ''remarkable but not yet complete.&quot;
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Northern Ireland&#39;s politicians must decide once and for all, within a few days, whether to unite to refloat the province&#39;s peace process, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said on Wednesday.
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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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The prime minister questions the will of the political parties to reach a settlement in Northern Ireland.
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Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said any deal between rival Protestant and Catholics in Northern Ireland would include the release of the Catholic IRA paramilitary killers of an Irish policeman.