Key Steps Taken in New Irish Peace Deal
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Leaders of the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party talked with Northern Ireland's police commander for the first time ever Monday in pursuit of a new peace agreement between Catholics and Protestants.
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Northern Ireland has taken another small step in the slow march towards restoring home rule this weekend with tacit promises from the IRA to end militant activity once and for all.
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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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Bertie Ahern will today urge unionists and republicans to do the deal that transforms Northern Irelandâs deadlocked peace process.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern are due to publish their proposals Wednesday to restore the power-sharing government in Northern Ireland
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The British and Irish prime ministers say much has been achieved in the Northern Ireland peace process but an accord on restoring the province&#39;s power-sharing government is not yet complete.
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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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The British and Irish governments are due to present the DUP and Sinn FÃ©in with further clarification today of their proposals for a deal on the North&#39;s political future.
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Way to verify IRA&#39;s decommissioning of arms is last obstacle to deal on N. Ireland. By Tod Robberson. LONDON -- Northern Ireland&#39;s feuding leaders came close but ultimately failed to reach a peace agreement
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LEEDS CASTLE, ENGLAND - The Irish Republican Army would have to definitively renounce violence and the Democratic Unionists would have to agree to a joint administration if either side hopes to revive a peace deal in Northern Ireland.
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Britain and Ireland struggled to revive negotiations for a lasting settlement in Northern Ireland by mulling ways that Protestants and Catholics could agree on to carry out a credible disarmament of the IRA ...
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Sinn Fein, the Northern Ireland party that once backed the killing of police officers, met the province's police commander for the first time Monday, in pursuit of a new peace agreement between Catholics and ...
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BELFAST - A new peace deal which would see Northern Ireland&#39;s home rule government restored and the Irish Republican Army (IRA) disarm could be struck soon, Britain&#39;s chief minister in the province said on Monday.
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Northern Ireland's largest loyalist paramilitary organisation, the Ulster Defence Association is to outline its plans to boost its peace process credentials.
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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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BELFAST - British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern are due to travel to Belfast on Wednesday to finalize a deal which could end two years of stalemate in the Northern Ireland peace process.
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Efforts to restore devolution in Northern Ireland are to be discussed by the secretary of state and Irish foreign minister.