Belfast community ignores politicians' squabbles
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On a bustling south Belfast street,   community workers Harry Smith and Stiofan Long are doing   something Northern Ireland's politicians refuse to do even   behind closed doors. They are talking.
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LEEDS CASTLE, England Northern Ireland&#39;s feuding parties reported some progress Friday toward a lasting peace solution for the British province but were pessimistic about striking a deal.
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A group of lawmakers boycotted an address to the Irish parliament by visiting Australian Prime Minister John Howard in protest at his government&#039;s policies, particularly on the war in Iraq.
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FOR FOUR decades, the Rev. Ian Paisley has said &quot;no&quot; to reconciliation between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland.
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The leading Belfast Sinn FÃ©in member, Gerry Kelly, has refused to confirm or deny claims made last night by DUP leader Ian Paisley.
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Talks on the next vital phase of the Northern Ireland peace process were under way yesterday even before counting had concluded in the elections for the revived Belfast Assembly.Comment
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A notorious Northern Irish paramilitary cut short an already chaotic debate on the province's political future on Friday by throwing what he said was a bomb into the building where parties were meeting.
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Ian Paisley has made a career out of obstructing efforts to find a political accommodation between Northern Ireland&#39;s warring communities.
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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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Negotiations to restore Northern Irelandâs power-sharing administration appear have ended without producing a deal, it was claimed today.
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While nine-metre (30ft) steel &quot;peace walls&quot; divide Protestant and Catholic working-class streets and residents lock themselves behind metal &quot;safety&quot; grills, a grim picture is emerging of post-ceasefire Northern Ireland, where hundreds of families are
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No agreement has been reached in the negotiation between Northern Ireland&#39;s Democratic Unionist Party, or DUP and its rival Sinn Fein, to resume peace talks.
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Unprecedented IRA disarmament is in the balance over a refusal by Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionists to compromise at the Northern Ireland peace talks.
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A major push to seal a political settlement for the turbulent British province of Northern Ireland stalled at the last moment Wednesday over demands for photographic evidence of IRA guerrillas scrapping their arms.
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Leaders from a town dubbed Britain's &quot;yob capital&quot; have rounded on critics, insisting the label was a misrepresentation of what they say is an attractive rural hideaway.
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Just off the quaint town square, a pizza shop owner and an employee took a break to banter about politics one recent late-summer day. They did not always agree, but like many others, found common ground on their preference for president &#151; no one yet.
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Vote counting begins in Northern Ireland on Thursday after an election for an assembly where voters hope feuding politicians will set aside bitter differences and finally work together to resolve local problems.