Blair, Ahern urge power-sharing after N.Irish vote
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Britain and Ireland urged Northern Ireland's politicians on Friday to agree to a power sharing government after the province's main Protestant and Catholic parties dominated assembly elections this week.
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LEEDS CASTLE, England - A high-stakes effort to revive a Catholic-Protestant government for Northern Ireland has ended in failure, but hope remains of an eventual breakthrough, the prime ministers of Britain and Ireland said Saturday.    Britain's Tony Blair and Ireland's Bertie Ahern had tried for three days to broker an agreement between Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army-linked party, and the Democratic Unionists, who represent most of the province's British Protestant majority...
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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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The Prime Minister arrived for talks on the political future of Northern Ireland yesterday determined for a deal to be struck. Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, the Irish
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LONDON  - British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern were meeting Northern Ireland&#39;s main Protestant and Catholic leaders as efforts intensified to seal a comprehensive power-sharing deal in the province.
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Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are to meet tomorrow to discuss their latest push to restore devolution in the North.
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PRIME Minister Tony Blair and Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern were today to meet unionists and nationalists in London for what have been billed as the most critical talks in the current negotiations to revive power sharing in Northern Ireland.
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Northern Ireland's voters go to the polls Wednesday to elect a power-sharing administration between Catholics and Protestants, aimed at restoring self-rule in Belfast.
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Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and British Prime Minister Tony Blair will meet Sinn FÃ©in and DUP leaders separately today as the all-out effort to secure a comprehensive peace process deal intensifies.
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Britain urged Northern Ireland's politicians on Friday to agree to share power after the main Protestant and Catholic parties strengthened their hold in an election viewed as a test of support for joint government.
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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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The British and Irish Prime Ministers, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, at talks in London, appear to have pushed Northern Irelandâs reluctant politicians some way to a restoration of devolved government in Belfast.
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The Taoiseach is to hold talks with the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in London on Wednesday. The two governments are at what Mr Ahern described as &#39;hopefully the decisive stage&#39; in their efforts to broker a deal in the North&#39;s peace process.
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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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British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern are to hold talks with Northern Ireland&#39;s political parties in London Wednesday in an attempt to relaunch
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Prime Minister Tony Blair called for an end to paramilitary violence in Northern Ireland, but warned he would not continue to push for peace without compromise from the region's rival political parties.
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It is a moment of decision in the Northern Ireland political process, Prime Minister Tony Blair has said.