Irish PM Ahern on brink of winning 3rd term
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Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern was on course to win a third successive term on Friday as voters swung back behind his ruling Fianna Fail party rather than gamble the country's prosperity on an unproven coalition.
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Northern Ireland's peace process will face "an enormous tragedy" if political rivals cannot agree this month to revive a Catholic-Protestant administration in the British territory, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said Monday.
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Prime Minister Bertie Ahern's long-dominant party marched toward its sixth straight election victory Friday as voters appeared determined to stick with a popular leader who has presided over unprecedented economic success
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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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Ireland&#39;s Green Party voted  overwhelmingly on Wednesday to back a coalition deal that puts  it in government for the first time and guarantees a third term  for Prime Minister Bertie Ahern.
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Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern and his British counterpart Gordon Brown were to discuss building on political gains in Northern Ireland when they meet in Belfast Monday, Ahern&#39;s office said.
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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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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 Republic's government will not wait until after the British General Election in May for progress in the peace process, Dublin Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern has said.
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Some elements of the Good Friday Agreement will have to be changed if progress is to be made, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said today.
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Northern Ireland's politicians attend a third day of talks aimed at restoring devolved government.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said yesterday elections would be held in Northern Ireland on March 7 as part of a drive to restore home rule to the British province.Comment
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Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern warned that Northern Ireland's bickering parties had just days to decide whether to back new proposals to break the stalemate in the peace process.
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Members of Ireland's Green Party vote on Wednesday on whether to endorse a coalition deal with Prime Minister Bertie Ahern's Fianna Fail party that will secure him a third successive term in office.
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The Prime Minister arrived for talks on the political future of Northern Ireland yesterday determined for a deal to be struck. Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, the Irish
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Members of Ireland's Green Party vote on Wednesday on whether to endorse a coalition deal with Prime Minister Bertie Ahern that will secure him a third successive term in office.
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Bertie Ahern looked Sunday for coalition partners to give him a third straight term as Ireland&#39;s prime minister after his party won the lion&#39;s share of seats in the country&#39;s general election.