New N.Ireland talks as leaders push for swift peace deal
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern were meeting Northern Ireland's main Protestant and Catholic leaders as efforts intensified to seal a comprehensive power-sharing deal in the province.
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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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Talks aimed at restoring power sharing in Northern Ireland remained on a knife edge tonight as Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionists still sought assurances about a deal.
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Northern Ireland&#39;s political leaders gather at Hillsborough Castle today in a bid to breathe fresh life into the peace process.
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Sinn Fein, the Northern Ireland party that once backed the killing of police officers, met the province's police commander for the first time Monday, in pursuit of a new peace agreement between Catholics and ...
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Tony Blair is preparing to urge unionists and republicans to agree to a deal that would transform Northern Ireland&#39;s deadlocked peace process.
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A new round of Northern Ireland peace talks will begin this week with Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern meeting Sinn Fein and other Northern Ireland parties before having discussions with his British counterpart Tony Blair, the Irish government announced.
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Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and Ireland's Prime Minister Bertie Ahern underlined the urgent need to revive the stalled Middle East peace process, after talks in Dublin.
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Britain and Ireland resume their joint efforts this week to revive deadlocked peace talks in Northern Ireland, aiming to forge common ground between sectarian groups set dead against each other.
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Northern Ireland's political leaders return to the negotiating table this week alongside British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Ireland's Bertie Ahern, with hardline parties vowing to use "no surrender" tactics ...
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Northern Ireland's bitterly divided  politicians have only a few weeks left to agree a new peace  settlement for the province, a leading member of the Irish  Republican Army's political ally Sinn Fein said on Monday.
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A fresh round of political talks is due to begin in Northern Ireland on Wednesday in an effort to unblock the impasse and restore devolved government.
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Bertie Ahern will today urge unionists and republicans to do the deal that transforms Northern Irelandâs deadlocked peace process.
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Talks aimed at forging a new peace deal in Northern Ireland have opened with a hint of acrimony as the main Catholic party arrived with a bug it said had been planted at its offices by British spies.
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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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LEEDS CASTLE, England  - Northern Ireland's  feuding political leaders reported progress but no breakthrough  on Friday at talks aimed at brokering a deal which would see  the Irish Republican Army (IRA) effectively disband.
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British and Irish leaders met Friday to work on a strategy for reviving a Catholic-Protestant government in Northern Ireland.