Ulster Party OKs Leader’s Meeting With Sinn Fein
Protestant leader David Trimble won approval Saturday from his Ulster Unionist Party for a historic face-to-face meeting with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, the Irish republican who has been his sworn enemy.
The highly symbolic meeting, which could help restore momentum to the peace process, may take place as early as Tuesday.
Trimble is likely to use the meeting to press Adams for progress in disarming republican guerrillas, a strand of the Good Friday peace agreement that has huge symbolic importance for Protestants.
Meanwhile, the death toll in the Omagh bombing rose to 29, when Sean McGrath, 61, died of injuries from the Aug. 15 attack.
And a cross-border bridge between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic is being named in honor of former Sen. George J. Mitchell (D-Maine), who was instrumental in achieving the April peace agreement.
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