Irish PM's loan admission gambit
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Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern's admission he received loans from "friends" aims to deflect growing questions, says James Helm.
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Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern urged the Catholic Sinn Fein to make an early move on giving support for policing and justice in Northern Ireland to ensure efforts to restore devolved government can move forward.
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Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern faces questions at an anti-corruption tribunal on Thursday over payments received from friends and businessmen in the early 1990s while he was finance minister and deputy premier.
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A shared agenda between Northern Ireland's political parties could lead to a deal, the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has said.
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DUBLIN -- Prime Minister Bertie Ahern and Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army-linked party, argued face to face yesterday about the IRA's alleged robbery of a Belfast bank.
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There is a reluctant reception for the Irish government's plans to move thousands of staff out to provincial towns.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has been offered the job as Middle East envoy, says Irish PM Bertie Ahern.
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Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern was set to clinch a third term on Saturday and begin the search for new coalition partners after his parliamentary ally for the past 10 years suffered heavy election losses.
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DUBLIN -- Ireland's ruling party said yesterday it would form a coalition government with the left-wing Greens, which could alter policies the prime minister put in place over the past 10 years to fuel the country's Celtic Tiger economy. Since rising to power in 1997, Prime Minister Bertie Ahern's center-right government has promoted tax breaks for big business, enacted the ...
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Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern offers his strong support to his British counterpart Tony Blair.
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Northern Ireland's rival politicians face "a moment of decision" in their six-year struggle to forge a stable Catholic-Protestant government, Prime Minister Tony Blair declared Thursday as he launched a ...
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Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern told an anti-corruption tribunal on Thursday he did nothing wrong in accepting tens of thousands of pounds in the early 1990s when he was finance minister and deputy premier.
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A preferred buyer for the National Irish and Northern banks is expected to be announced by their parent this morning. National Australia Bank is due to make an announcement to the stock exchanges in Melbourne and London.
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The Taoiseach has said there is a narrow window of opportunity for making progress in Northern Ireland.
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The British government is facing demands to pump funds into Northern Ireland in a bid to bolster a talks deal if it is struck, Sinn FÃ©in leader Gerry Adams said tonight.
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Irish PM Bertie Ahern faces more pressure after saying he took Â£8,000 for a speaking event 12 years ago.
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Joint British and Irish plans for ending the political stalemate were being presented by the two Prime Ministers to the DUP and Sinn Fein this afternoon.