Ahern, Hain in talks on N.Ireland self-rule hopes
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Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern will meet Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain in Wales, to discuss efforts to restore self-rule in Belfast.
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Northern Ireland peace talks are set to continue today as hopes grow for a final deal on IRA disarmament and restoring devolution.
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TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern threw a lifeline to beleaguered Sinn Fein last night when he said he would soon be going back into talks with the party in an attempt to get the peace process back on the rails.
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The British and Irish Prime Ministers, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, at talks in London, appear to have pushed Northern Irelandâs reluctant politicians some way to a restoration of devolved government in Belfast.
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Tony Blair is holding talks with his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern in a bid to inject renewed pace into the peace process. The informal discussions, which will take place at the prime minister&#39;s Sedgefield
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The Irish Foreign Affairs Minister has expressed hopes for an improvement in the political situation in Northern Ireland in the coming weeks.
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Sinn Fein's move to support the police in Northern Ireland leaves unionists with no excuse to balk at power-sharing, Ulster Secretary Peter Hain has insisted.As he prepared to meet Irish premier Bertie Ahern ...Comment
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Northern Ireland's politicians attend a third day of talks aimed at restoring devolved government.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern are to host talks with Northern Ireland's political parties next month ahead of a deadline for restoring the province's stalled power sharing government, it was ...
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Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and his negotiating team are to meet his national executive as British and Irish government officials prepare their response to questions about proposals to revive power sharing at Stormont.
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The two governments are preparing to put their proposals aimed at breaking the political stalemate in Northern Ireland to the DUP and Sinn Fein.
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Britain and Ireland are battling to break a deadlock between Northern Ireland's main Protestant and Catholic-backed parties on the eve of a crunch deadline to restore self-rule in the province.
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Hopes of a breakthrough in the Northern Ireland peace process rose on Friday as George W. Bush personally intervened to try to persuade the warring factions to strike a historic power-sharing deal.
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Intensive political talks involving the two PMs will be held outside NI next month, Peter Hain says.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern are to hold talks with Northern Ireland&#39;s political parties in London Wednesday in an attempt to relaunch
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A fresh round of political talks is due to begin in Northern Ireland in an effort to unblock the impasse and restore devolved government.
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Officials from the Irish and British governments will hold talks with the North&#39;s political parties at Stormont today. The meetings follow the end of negotiations at Leeds Castle in Kent aimed at restoring power-sharing to the North.