Rocking the peace boat in N. Ireland
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IT&#39;S VERY sad to see that the governments of Northern Ireland and United Kingdom are not able to clinch a peace deal that would have seen complete disarmament under a schedule set for completion this year-end.
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BELFAST : Prime Ministers Tony Blair of Britain and Bertie Ahern of Ireland were to visit Belfast amid fading hopes of a breakthrough to restore Catholic-Protestant power-sharing in Northern Ireland.
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LONDON -- Leaders of the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party talked with Northern Ireland's police commander for the first time ever yesterday in pursuit of a new peace agreement between Catholics and Protestants.
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After controversial visits to Ireland and Poland, a Dutch boat made into a floating abortion clinic set sail for Portugal to draw attention to the staunchly Roman Catholic country's highly restrictive abortion laws.
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Ireland, a mostly Roman Catholic country where divorce was legalized just seven years ago, is contemplating another leap away from its conservative past &#151; and toward greater rights for homosexual couples.
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home to the Bridge on the River Kwai and a magnet for British backpackers - bears the slogan: &quot;Welcome to the land of Peace and Love.
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DEN HELDER, The Netherlands  - After controversial visits to Ireland and Poland, a Dutch boat made into a floating abortion clinic set sail for Portugal to draw attention to the staunchly Roman Catholic country&#39;s highly restrictive abortion laws.
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A week of intense political activity aimed at generating movement in the Northern Ireland political situation is due to begin.
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The British and Irish prime ministers unveiled a sweeping new Northern Ireland peace plan Wednesday that offered solutions to issues &#151; particularly Irish Republican Army disarmament &#151; that have bedeviled negotiations for a decade.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland  - Northern Ireland's peace process requires the Irish Republican Army to renounce crime, as well as disarm, the governments of Britain and Ireland stressed Thursday after the outlawed group announced it will not scrap weapons and does not commit crimes.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland  - Rival negotiators began talks Wednesday on reviving a joint Catholic-Protestant administration for Northern Ireland, a major goal of peacemaking inspired a decade ago by an Irish Republican Army ceasefire.
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Talks to break the ice of Northern Irish peace progress intensified Monday with positive signs comingout of the meeting between the province&#39;s police chief and Sinn Fein, the
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland The peace process in Northern Ireland is reaching a critical point, with people waiting to hear if the Irish Republican Army will disband and disarm its operation.
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Comment is free: Mary O'Hara: Recent murders are gnawing away at Northern Ireland's shiny post-conflict veneer
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The British and Irish prime ministers unveiled a sweeping new Northern Ireland peace plan Wednesday that offered solutions to issues â-articularly Irish
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A spectacular bank robbery in Belfast last month, in which thieves netted nearly $50 million, has cast a pall on Northern Ireland peace negotiations and thrown Catholic-Protestant political relations in ...
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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 ...