Blair concedes Northern. Ireland talks have failed
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LEEDS CASTLE, England  - A high-stakes effort to revive a Catholic-Protestant government for Northern Ireland has ended in failure, British Prime Minister Tony Blair conceded Saturday. Negotiators have ``not yet achieved a comprehensive agreement,'' Blair said, speaking at the end of a three-day diplomatic push to revive the Good Friday peace accord of 1998
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British prime minister Tony Blair told  Sinn Fein on Friday it would be excluded from talks on a  lasting political settlement for Northern Ireland unless its  military ally, the Irish Republican Army, gave up crime.
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The Taoiseach and British Prime Minister will travel to Belfast this afternoon resigned to the collapse of their efforts to strike a political deal in the North because of a deadlock over visual proof of IRA ...
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BEIJING, Dec. 14 -- In Northern Ireland, hopes of reviving stalled talks between nationalist and unionist political parties have been dealt a blow by an Irish Republican Army refusal to deliver photographic proof of disarmament.
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The Irish Republican Army's violent campaign in Northern Ireland is over, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday, following a report into paramilitary activity that raised hopes of reviving self-rule.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair called in Northern Ireland&#39;s biggest Protestant and Catholic parties Wednesday for talks on clearing the tricky last hurdles stopping them sharing power in Belfast.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair rejected Monday calls for a referendum on a new EU treaty agreed last week, saying it did not go as far as the bloc&#39;s doomed constitution which it replaced.
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LEEDS CASTLE, England Sept. 18, 2004 - 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.
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The British and Irish prime ministers struggled to break an apparent deadlock in talks aimed at sealing a final peace settlement for Northern Ireland as a deadline loomed.
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British prime minister Tony Blair told Sinn Fein on Friday it would be excluded from talks on a lasting political settlement for Northern Ireland unless its military ally, the Irish Republican Army, gave up crime.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the &quot;moment of decision&quot; had come for Northern Ireland's Catholic and Protestant leaders to break two years of deadlock and secure a lasting peace.
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Talks to restore home rule to Northern Ireland ground on as British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Ireland's Bertie Ahern pushed rival Catholic and Protestant parties toward a lasting peace deal.
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LEEDS CASTLE (England) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair said yesterday Northern Ireland had reached the âmoment of decisionâ in which its leaders must show the will to end years of deadlock and secure a lasting peace.
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With the war in Iraq dividing his government and eroding trust in his leadership, Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday conceded at
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The prime ministers of Britain and Ireland admitted today that they had failed so far to restore power-sharing government between Catholics and Protestants
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LEEDS CASTLE, England Sept. 18, 2004 - High-pressure talks among rival Northern Ireland parties ended Saturday with no agreement to revive a Catholic-Protestant administration, but British Prime Minister
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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 yesterday.