Northern Ireland takes step to power sharing
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Northern Ireland took a step toward restoring a government shared between Protestants and Catholics as the first votes came in on Thursday from an election for a new provincial assembly.
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Northern Ireland lawmakers are gaining a role in the parliament of the Republic of Ireland for the first time since the island's partition 86 years ago.The government of Prime Minister Bertie Ahern announced Tuesday it will create a new parliamentary committee that gives places to Northern Ireland lawmakers elected to seats in the British Parliament.The 18 lawmakers from the British territory will be permitted to take part in debates in a newly formed joint committee on the implementation of the Good Friday peace agreement. But they will not be permitted to vote or offer any amendments on legislative bills. Read more
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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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The British and Irish prime ministers made a new push Wednesday to secure a power-sharing deal between the two largest and most hard-line parties in Northern Ireland and declared a decision must be made within days.
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Unionist demands for the IRA to be wound up can be met as soon as they give a pledge to share power in Northern Ireland, Gerry Adams stressed today.
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Ian Paisley is almost certain to sign a historic agreement that would see his Democratic Unionists sharing power in Ulster with Sinn Fein.
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Northern Ireland's peace process is reaching a point of decision, Secretary of State Paul Murphy says.
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Sinn Fein leaders were in Downing Street as efforts to revive power-sharing in Northern Ireland reached a critical stage.
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The DUP say they will decide whether to enter a power-sharing government once republicans deliver on policing.
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Northern Ireland's biggest Protestant and Catholic parties were well ahead of rivals, early results from assembly elections showed on Thursday, as the province took a step toward restoring shared government.
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Two key meetings are set to take place as efforts intensify to restore power-sharing in Northern Ireland.
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BELFAST -- Hard-liners dominated the early returns yesterday from an election to decide who will control the Northern Ireland Assembly -- and hold the key to revived power-sharing in this British territory.
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The polar opposites and would-be partners in Northern Ireland's next administration negotiated down to the wire Friday on a British-Irish plan to revive power-sharing.
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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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LONDON  - British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern were meeting Northern Ireland&#39;s main Protestant and Catholic leaders as efforts intensified to seal a comprehensive power-sharing deal in the province.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland  - 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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Britain and Ireland urged Northern Ireland's politicians on Friday to agree to a power sharing government after the province's main Protestant and Catholic parties dominated assembly elections this week.Comment