Blair, Ahern urge power-sharing after N.Irish vote
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Britain and Ireland urged Northern Ireland's politicians on Friday to agree to a power sharing government after the province's main Protestant and Catholic parties dominated assembly elections this week.
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Northern Ireland's voters go to the polls Wednesday to elect a power-sharing administration between Catholics and Protestants, aimed at restoring self-rule in Belfast.
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Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern urged the Catholic Sinn Fein to make an early move on giving support for policing and justice in Northern Ireland to ensure efforts to restore devolved government can move forward.
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Talks are continuing at Leeds Castle in Kent between the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair on the possibility of restoring power sharing to Stormont.
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Britain urged Northern Ireland's politicians on Friday to agree to share power after the main Protestant and Catholic parties strengthened their hold in an election viewed as a test of support for joint government.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned that Northern Ireland faced its last chance in a generation to overcome sectarian strife, as he joined Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern to try to restore power-sharing government.
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Northern Ireland will elect a new legislature March 7 that will determine the fate of power-sharing, Britain announced Tuesday in swift reply to an IRA-linked political party's decision to support the police.Comment
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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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Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair meet today to try to find a way of breathing new life into the faltering efforts to restore devolution to Northern Ireland.
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The prime ministers of Britain and Ireland returned to Belfast on Thursday to deliver an ultimatum to Northern Ireland&#039;s divided Protestant and Catholic parties: Revive power-sharing by a November deadline &amp;#151; or lose the governments&#039; backing for the project.
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Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has recommended his party should accept the British-Irish proposals to revive power-sharing. He made the comments to senior party members in Belfast on Monday.
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LEEDS CASTLE, England : Talks to restore home rule to Northern Ireland ground on as British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Ireland&#39;s Bertie Ahern pushed rival Catholic and Protestant parties toward a lasting peace deal.
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Prime Ministers Tony Blair of Britain and Bertie Ahern of Ireland dug in with Northern Ireland's rival Catholic and Protestant parties for a second day of talks aimed at restoring the province's power-sharing ...
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Tony Blair and Berti Ahern's plans to revive power-sharing in Northern Ireland appeared to be in trouble as nationalists raised concerns about the proposal.
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THE ballot is finally to lay the bullet to rest in Northern Ireland. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, will travel to Belfast this week to formalise a historic agreement ...
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Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern are to meet unionists and nationalists in London on what has been billed as the most critical talks in the current negotiations to revive power sharing ...
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Prime Minister Tony Blair called for an end to paramilitary violence in Northern Ireland, but warned he would not continue to push for peace without compromise from the region's rival political parties.