IRA crime sole obstacle to peace: Blair and Ahern
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Prime ministers Tony Blair of Britain and Bertie Ahern of Ireland said the Irish Republican Army (IRA) must give up all criminal activity to allow power sharing to return to Northern Ireland.
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Progress is possible in the Northern Ireland process but the IRA must stop all violence, Tony Blair says.
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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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Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern urged Northern Ireland's leaders Friday not to miss an opportunity of &quot;historic proportions&quot; to restore power sharing.
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Tony Blair and Berti Ahern's plans to revive power-sharing in Northern Ireland appeared to be in trouble as nationalists raised concerns about the proposal.
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Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern are to meet in Downing Street to assess the progress in negotiations on a deal to restore devolution.
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LEEDS CASTLE, England  - Talks aimed at sealing a  lasting peace settlement for Northern Ireland ended without a  comprehensive deal on Saturday despite significant progress on  disarming the IRA, Britain and Ireland said.
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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.
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LEEDS CASTLE, England : Talks to restore home rule to Northern Ireland ground on as British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Ireland&#39;s Bertie Ahern pushed rival Catholic and Protestant parties toward a lasting peace deal.
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BELFAST  - British and Irish Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern were preparing to head to Belfast, hopeful of a breakthrough in the protracted deadlock over power-sharing in Northern Ireland.
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Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, the Irish Prime Minister, are expected to concede in Belfast today that another Northern Ireland peace process initiative has ended in frustrating failure.
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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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Tony Blair will meet Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams at Downing Street later as the painstaking push for a peace deal in Northern Ireland continues.
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BELFAST : The British and Irish leaders conceded that their plan to restore power-sharing government to Northern Ireland was &#39;incomplete&#39; but stressed that a definitive peace deal hinged on the sole dispute over how to carry out IRA disarmament.
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Tony Blair is holding talks with his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern in a bid to inject renewed pace into the peace process. The informal discussions, which will take place at the prime minister&#39;s Sedgefield
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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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Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted today that there must be a âcomplete and unequivocal end to violenceâ by paramilitaries in Northern Ireland if the power-sharing executive is to be restored.