Fresh Ulster bid by Blair-Ahern
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LONDON: The British and Irish prime ministers, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, made a new push yesterday to secure a power-sharing deal between the two largest and most hard-line parties in Northern Ireland.
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Leaders of Ireland's Green Party said on Tuesday they were ready to back Prime Minister Bertie Ahern for a third term in office and enter an Irish government for the first time after securing policy concessions.
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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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An exhausted Prime Minister Tony Blair has pledged a fresh drive in his marathon quest for a once-and-for-all peace settlement in Northern Ireland.
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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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A fresh round of talks is due to begin in NI in an effort to unblock the political impasse and restore devolution.
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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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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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Protestant and Roman Catholic political talks on restoring Northern Ireland&#39;s power-sharing government have ended in failure. British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, will seek new ways to move forward.
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Northern Ireland lawmakers are gaining a role in the parliament of the Republic of Ireland for the first time since the island's partition 86 years ago.The government of Prime Minister Bertie Ahern announced Tuesday it will create a new parliamentary committee that gives places to Northern Ireland lawmakers elected to seats in the British Parliament.The 18 lawmakers from the British territory will be permitted to take part in debates in a newly formed joint committee on the implementation of the Good Friday peace agreement. But they will not be permitted to vote or offer any amendments on legislative bills. Read more
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BELFAST - British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern are due to travel to Belfast on Wednesday to finalize a deal which could end two years of stalemate in the Northern Ireland peace process.
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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 &quot;no surrender&quot; tactics that could scupper the peace effort.
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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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Prime Ministers Tony Blair of Britain and Bertie Ahern of Ireland were to visit Belfast amid fading hopes of a breakthrough to restore Catholic-Protestant power-sharing in Northern Ireland.
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Tony Blair will today put more pressure on the DUP to sign up to a new Ulster peace deal. The prime minister will meet with hardline unionist leader Ian Paisley in Downing Street today having made clear he
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Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern are to meet to consider ways of breaking the deadlock over guns and photos in Northern Ireland's political process.