&#39;Now or never&#39; for NI peace deal
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The leader of the Democratic Unionist Party has warned the IRA that it is &quot;now or never&quot; to do a deal on power sharing with his party in Northern Ireland.
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A deal taking shape Friday in negotiations on Northern Ireland's future would require the outlawed Irish Republican Army to resume disarmament and issue a new statement that, for the first time, would definitively renounce violence.
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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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BELFAST, Northern Ireland  - Rival negotiators began talks Wednesday on reviving a joint Catholic-Protestant administration for Northern Ireland, a major goal of peacemaking inspired a decade ago by an Irish Republican Army ceasefire.
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Bertie Ahern will today urge unionists and republicans to do the deal that transforms Northern Irelandâs deadlocked peace process.
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NORTHERN IRELANDâS political parties have come closer than at any stage in recent history to agreeing terms for a permanent end to disarm the IRA and revive a power-sharing government.
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Northern Ireland&#39;s politicians must decide once and for all, within a few days, whether to unite to refloat the province&#39;s peace process, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said on Wednesday.
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Unprecedented IRA disarmament is in the balance over a refusal by Ian Paisley&#39;s Democratic Unionists to compromise at the Northern Ireland peace talks.
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A shared agenda between Northern Ireland's political parties could lead to a deal, the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has said.
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LONDON -- After three months of intense talks aimed at breaking the deadlock in Northern Ireland's peace process, Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday laid out the framework for an agreement between the two sides that he said was ''remarkable but not yet complete.&quot;
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This is the moment of decision for the Irish peace process. That was how British Prime Minister Tony Blair described it yesterday, and the feeling was shared by all the Stormont political leaders.
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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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Sinn Fein says decision time on a political resolution in Northern Ireland is fast approaching.
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The British and Irish prime ministers are due in Northern Ireland to publish their proposals to restore devolution. But there is little optimism they will be unveiling a deal which could lead to a return to power-sharing.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Northern Ireland had reached the &quot;moment of decision&quot; in which its leaders must show the will to end years of deadlock and secure a lasting peace.
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Northern Ireland's politicians must decide once and for all, within a few days, whether to unite to refloat the province's peace process, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said on Wednesday. "People want a decision," Ahern told reporters after talks with Britain's Tony Blair. "We have to call it within a matter of days."
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LEEDS CASTLE, England Sept. 16, 2004 - Northern Ireland&#39;s rival politicians face &quot;a moment of decision&quot; in their six-year struggle to forge a stable Catholic-Protestant government, Prime Minister Tony Blair