Experts say IRA committed to peace
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The Irish Republican Army has stopped recruiting members and has shut down units responsible for bomb-making and weapons smuggling, an expert panel reported Wednesday in findings designed to spur a revival of Catholic-Protestant cooperation in Northern Ireland.
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A watchdog monitoring disarmament in Northern Ireland has said the IRA is abandoning terrorism, fueling hopes for a deal to revive power-sharing government in the province.
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The British and Irish governments received a long-awaited report Monday widely expected to confirm that the Irish Republican Army is no longer a threat to Northern Ireland, a finding they hope will help revive a Catholic-Protestant administration.
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The Irish Republican Army is no longer a security threat in Northern Ireland, a ceasefire watchdog said on Wednesday in a report Britain and Ireland hope will lay the basis for restoring self-rule in the province.
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A fresh IRA statement says the British and Irish governments are "making a mess" of the peace process.
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The Irish Republican Army (IRA) warned British and Irish governments on Thursday not to play down a fresh breakdown in efforts to secure a lasting political settlement between Northern Ireland's feuding ...
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Loyalist paramilitaries will respond positively if the IRA goes out of business and decommissions all its weapons, Progressive Unionist Party leader David Ervine has said.
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An independent commission will conclude in a report to be published on Wednesday that the Irish Republican Army (IRA) has stopped all criminal and paramilitary activity, the Times newspaper reported.
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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 IRA must live up to Prime Minister Tony Blair's expectations of a breakthrough on weapons and the ending of paramilitary activity, the terror group has been told.
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Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern were today urged to secure a clear commitment from the IRA that it will end all paramilitary activity in talks to revive power-sharing in Northern Ireland.
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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 ...
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair passed on tips gleaned from his experience brokering an uneasy peace in Northern Ireland as he backed Spain's current drive for peace in its troubled Basque country.
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IRA guerrillas said on Thursday they would never be &quot;humiliated&quot; by the photographing of their final acts of disarmament -- the last sticking point in an Anglo-Irish drive for a Northern Ireland political settlement.
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Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness have gone to the IRA in a bid to resolve the issue of disarmament, they have announced.
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A new peace deal which would see Northern Ireland&#39;s home rule government restored and the IRA disarm could be struck soon. &quot;Fundamental political change is within our grasp.
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LEEDS CASTLE, England  - A deal taking shape Friday in negotiations on Northern Ireland's future would require the outlawed Irish Republican Army to resume disarmament and issue a new statement that, for the first time, would definitively renounce violence.