N. Ireland Protestants withdraw threat to sever contact with ...
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BELFAST  - The head of Northern Ireland&#39;s main Protestant party withdrew an earlier threat to sever contact with Dublin after Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern apologized for an apparent misunderstanding over the issue of photographic evidence of IRA
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The real possibility of an end to the IRA has been on the agenda at talks between members of Northern Ireland&#39;s major political parties.
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There is fresh hope of a breakthrough in Northern Ireland after Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams said the IRA would relinquish its arms if a new peace deal could be brokered.
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Unionist and nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland have the prize of an end to militant republicanism within their grasp, a senior Sinn Fein figure stressed today.
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Northern Ireland's largest Protestant  guerrilla group promised on Sunday to join the peace process in  the British-ruled province by ending violence, but said it  would disarm only when its republican foes did so too.
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The fear that gripped Northern Ireland during the so-called "Troubles" between Protestants and Roman Catholics has been replaced by optimism, despite the latest failure to finally end a bloody 30-year chapter in the province's history.
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Northern Ireland may have enjoyed an uneasy peace in recent years, but as illustrated by a massive bank robbery in December, the fear is that paramilitary gangs have simply turned their guns from politics to profit.
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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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Northern Ireland's largest Roman Catholic paramailitary group, the Irish Republican Army ( news - web sites ), has agreed to allow a Protestant and a Catholic churchman to witness the decommissioning of its ...
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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
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland President Bush phoned the key Protestant leader in Northern Ireland today, telling him to do his best to reach a deal with his longtime Catholic enemies.
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The row between the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, and the DUP over IRA decommissioning appears to have been resolved. Yesterday, the DUP announced it was withdrawing all contact from the Government after Mr Ahern
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Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley has severed contact with the Dublin Government as the row over IRA disarmament deepened. Mr Paisley&#39;s move, after Taoiseach Bertie Ahern appeared to concede photographic
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The final British troops withdrew Monday from the South Armagh borderland of Northern Ireland, ending a 37-year mission to keep watch over the Irish Republican Army's most dangerous power base.
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Northern Ireland Protestant hard-liner Ian Paisley said on Wednesday the IRA may be about to disarm but he would not share power with its political
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1921 &#151; Ireland is partitioned amid civil war. The new state of Northern Ireland, with a British Protestant majority, remains part of United Kingdom while the predominantly Catholic rest of Ireland wins independence from UK.
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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.