Belfast sighs as peace deal slips away again
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Plastic Father Christmases may festoon Belfast&#39;s many lampposts, but there was little sign yesterday of the season of goodwill.
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DUBLIN -- The Irish Republican Army yesterday withdrew its offer to disarm, deepening the deadlock in a Northern Ireland peace process already hobbled by the IRA's alleged robbery of a Belfast bank.
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LONDON -- Northern Ireland's rival political parties locked horns yesterday over the issue of disarming the Irish Republican Army guerrillas amid frantic efforts to agree to a final peace settlement for the British-run province.
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DUBLIN -- Negotiations on reviving power-sharing in Northern Ireland, the goal of the 1998 peace accord, are to resume today on the 10th anniversary of an Irish Republican Army cease-fire.
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HOPES of a final breakthrough to end paramilitary violence in Northern Ireland collapsed within sight of success yesterday. With agreement close, and the IRA having at last agreed to give up all its weapons
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Efforts to secure a lasting peace settlement in Northern Ireland were continuing late on Tuesday night as London increased public pressure on republicans and loyalists to settle their differences.
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Britain and Ireland struggled to revive negotiations for a lasting settlement in Northern Ireland by mulling ways that Protestants and Catholics could agree on to carry out a credible disarmament of the IRA ...
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Hopes For the release of a British hostage kidnapped in Baghdad were fading last night after the Iraqi Foreign Minister said his government would not bow to the kidnappers&#39; demands.
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Talks on the next vital phase of the Northern Ireland peace process were under way yesterday even before counting had concluded in the elections for the revived Belfast Assembly.Comment
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Talks aimed at restoring devolved government in Northern Ireland will peter out unless the IRA reveals details of its offer to end paramilitarism, Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble said today.
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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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Northern Ireland took another small step in the slow march toward restoring home rule this weekend with tacit promises from the IRA to end guerrilla activity once and for all.
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The British and Irish prime ministers say much has been achieved in the Northern Ireland peace process but an accord on restoring the province&#39;s power-sharing government is not yet complete.
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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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LONDON/BELFAST  - Rival Protestant and Catholic  parties fought for concessions on IRA disarmament and British  troop withdrawals on Monday amid a flurry of efforts to seal a  lasting political settlement in Northern Ireland.
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Four decades after he barged onto Northern Ireland&#39;s rancorous political stage vowing never to compromise, Protestant cleric Ian Paisley holds the key to striking a new deal to seal peace in the province.
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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.