DUP 'breaks off' Irish contacts
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DUP leader Ian Paisley has said that he is breaking off relations with the Irish government over the taoiseach's comments on IRA arms decommissioning.
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DUBLIN -- The Irish Republican Army yesterday withdrew its offer to disarm, deepening the deadlock in a Northern Ireland peace process already hobbled by the IRA's alleged robbery of a Belfast bank.
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LONDON -- Northern Ireland's rival political parties locked horns yesterday over the issue of disarming the Irish Republican Army guerrillas amid frantic efforts to agree to a final peace settlement for the British-run province.
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The IRA withdraws its offer to put its weapons beyond use and blames the British and Irish governments.
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DUP leader, Ian Paisley has claimed confidential sources have told him the IRA may be about to go ahead and decommission its weapons.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair said that Northern Ireland political parties must sever ties once and for all with paramilitary groups to enable the peace process to advance.
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Sinn Fein and the DUP hold separate key talks aimed at reviving devolved government in Northern Ireland.
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The DUP was last night reconsidering its boycott of talks with the Irish government after Taoiseach Bertie Ahern apologised to party leader Ian Paisley.
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Sinn FÃ©in has accused DUP leader Ian Paisley of effectively holding a gun to the heads of the Taoiseach and the British Prime Minister on the issue of photographic proof of IRA decommissioning.
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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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A prominent member of the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) said that he has been warned his life is in danger from opponents of his party's stance on policing in Northern Ireland.
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The former archbishop of Dublin is taking legal action to stop some abuse claim files being given to an inquiry.
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Irish Premier Bertie Ahern has apologised to Ian Paisley in a bid to halt a new row over IRA disarmament turning into a political crisis, it has been claimed.
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Sinn FÃ©in president Gerry Adams has accused the Democratic Unionist Party of seeking to humiliate the IRA as part of a deal to restore the power-sharing institutions in the North.
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Sinn Fein must sever its links with the IRA if it is to play a full part in democratic politics, says the Irish foreign minister.
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Talks between Irish and British government officials and two of Northern Ireland's political parties, the DUP and Sinn Fein, adjourned in London last night.
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NORTHERN Ireland could be facing fresh elections after the deal to decommission the IRA - s weapons collapsed last week.