Irish minister hopeful on Bigley
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Appeals from Ireland and Britain for Iraq hostage Ken Bigley encourage hopes he will be freed, the Irish foreign minister has said.
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A Muslim negotiator involved in trying to free British hostage Ken Bigley is optimistic he will be freed, it is reported.
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The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, is due to meet British Prime Minister Tony Blair today to discuss the up-coming Leeds Castle negotiations.
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Northern Ireland&#39;s politicians face a nerve-wracking day as they wait for the Reverend Ian Paisley to decide if he will endorse a historic deal with Sinn Fein.
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The real possibility of an end to the IRA has been on the agenda at talks between members of Northern Ireland&#39;s major political parties.
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The Irish government today issued a passport to Kenneth Bigley, the British hostage who has been held in Iraq for almost three weeks, in an attempt to help secure his release.
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The Irish government steps up its efforts to free Ken Bigley, held hostage in Iraq, by talking to diplomats from Iran and Jordan.
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The two governments are hoping to respond to queries tabled by the DUP and Sinn Fein by Friday.
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It looks possible that Irish President Mary McAleese could be returned unopposed for a second seven-year term.
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The son and brother of Ken Bigley, who has been held hostage in Iraq for two weeks, met Jack Straw yesterday to seek assurances that the government was doing all it could to secure his release.
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The prime ministers of Ireland and Britain will hold talks on Sunday about maintaining support for the power-sharing government in Northern Ireland, the government in Dublin said.
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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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Hopes for the release of Kenneth Bigley, the British hostage, rose yesterday after Dublin responded to requests from his kidnappers for proof of his Irish ancestry by issuing a passport in his name.
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The secretary of state has said he is hopeful the parties will accept the British-Irish blueprint aimed at restoring devolution.
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Efforts continue this week to get power-sharing government in Northern Ireland up and running again, with all eyes still on firebrand Protestant leader Ian Paisley.
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Northern Ireland&#39;s politicians are preparing for a second day of intensive talks aimed at restoring devolved government. The talks, continuing on Friday at Leeds Castle in Kent, are seen as the most important
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The British and Irish governments received a long-awaited report Monday widely expected to confirm that the Irish Republican Army is no longer a threat to Northern Ireland, a finding they hope will help revive ...Comment