Decade of talk: the Northern Ireland peace process
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When our erstwhile political negotiators left the plush surroundings of Leeds Castle last week one source is reported as having said 'another day and we might have cracked it'. I spent many years standing ...
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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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Leaders of Northern Ireland&#39;s main parties on Thursday are starting intensive negotiations aimed to revive the long-deadlocked peace process in the province.
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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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BELFAST -- Ten years after the Irish Republican Army's momentous cease-fire, negotiations resumed yesterday in hope of reviving a Catholic-Protestant administration, an elusive goal of Northern Ireland's hard-fought peace process.
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Four decades after he barged onto Northern Ireland'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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A fresh round of political talks is due to begin in Northern Ireland on Wednesday in an effort to unblock the impasse and restore devolved government.
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Northern Ireland leader Ian Paisley and the head of state of the Irish Republic, President Mary McAleese, shook hands Monday for the first time _ another symbolic milestone on Ireland's road to reconciliation.Paisley, 81, for decades rejected any role for the Irish Republic in Northern Ireland, a predominantly Protestant part of the United Kingdom. Last year, he accused McAleese of being a deceitful politician who talked nicely in public but privately loathed Northern Ireland's Protestant majority. Read more
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Northern Ireland's fragile peace process enters a make-or-break period this week as British, Irish and U.S. mediators work to end an 11-month stalemate among feuding sectarian parties.
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LEEDS CASTLE, England  - 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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Northern Ireland peace talks are set to continue today as hopes grow for a final deal on IRA disarmament and restoring devolution.
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Talks to reintroduce power sharing in Northern Ireland have reached a stalemate over the issue of photographing the handover of IRA weapons.
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LONDON The political leaders of Northern Ireland gathered Thursday at Leeds Castle in Kent under strong admonition from the prime ministers of Britain and Ireland to resolve the differences that led to the collapse of the power-sharing accord known as the
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NORTHERN IRELAND S 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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BELFAST, Northern Ireland The peace process in Northern Ireland is reaching a critical point, with people waiting to hear if the Irish Republican Army will disband and disarm its operation.
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All-party talks to revive Northern Ireland's peace process after two years of stalemate are to begin, led by Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern.
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As Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern go into the second day of peace talks with the political parties, paramilitary weapons were central to chances of success.