Premier Meets With Sinn Fein Leader
From Times Wire Reports
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern met with the leader of the Irish Republican Army’s political wing in Dublin, marking the restart of direct contacts after a new IRA cease-fire in British-ruled Northern Ireland. Ahern, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and moderate nationalist leader John Hume jointly urged Northern Ireland’s pro-British unionists to back a struggling talks initiative aimed at ending their decades of strife with Irish nationalist republicans.
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