Hardline Northern Irish Protestant group pledges to end all violence
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Northern Ireland's main pro-British paramilitary group, The Ulster Defence Association (UDA), pledged to end all violence and work towards complete disarmament.
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BELFAST -- The family of a Catholic man slain by IRA members demanded an end yesterday to the intimidation that dissuades Catholics from cooperating with police, a crucial but often overlooked problem in the Northern Ireland peace process.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland - The Irish Republican Army is willing to resume disarming, but will not accept conditions designed to humiliate the outlawed group, Sinn Fein chief Gerry Adams said Tuesday as efforts to strike a new Northern Ireland peace
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Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted today that there must be a âcomplete and unequivocal end to violenceâ by paramilitaries in Northern Ireland if the power-sharing executive is to be restored.
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Progress is possible in the Northern Ireland process but the IRA must stop all violence, Tony Blair says.
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Warning that he would not be &quot;bluffed,&quot; Protestant leader Ian Paisley said Saturday the latest attempt to achieve peace in Northern Ireland was doomed unless the paramilitary Irish Republican Army (IRA) took immediate and verifiable steps to disarm.
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THE Irish Republican Army announced was willing to resume disarmament and promote a &quot;totally peaceful&quot; Northern Ireland, it said today.
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BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND -- Northern Ireland&#39;s largest and most violent outlawed group, the Ulster Defence Association, announced yesterday it will desist from further attacks and wants to rejoin peacemaking efforts.
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Pressure grew on Northern Ireland's main Protestant party to back a deal to revive self-rule in the province, after a British minister said he is sure the IRA has renounced violence for good.
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Legislation aimed at protecting people from anti-social behaviour in Northern Ireland comes into force.
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The Northern Ireland secretary, Paul Murphy, today explained to MPs that he had agreed to recognise a ceasefire by the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) but warned that the group must live up to its commitment.
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Protestant hardliner Ian Paisley , leader of the Democratic Unionist party, shakes hands with women in Belfast.Comment
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Northern Ireland's fragile peace process has been damaged by a massive bank heist last month in Belfast attributed to the Catholic paramilitary Irish Republican Army, the minister for the province said.
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Northern Ireland's political leaders return to the negotiating table this week alongside Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern, with hardline parties vowing to use &quot;no surrender&quot; tactics that could scupper the peace effort.
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Hardline Protestant and Catholic parties appeared set to capture a majority of seats in Northern Ireland's provincial assembly as final results were being counted Friday.
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The Irish Republican Army declared Thursday it&#39;s willing to get rid of all its weapons this month - but only if Protestants drop their demands for photographic proof.
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BREAKING months of silence, the Irish Republican Army declared today it was willing to get rid of all its weapons this month - but only if Protestants backed a new power-sharing