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Belfast (AFP) - The leaders who brokered peace in Northern Ireland urged on Monday today's main pro-UK party to forge compromise anew and unlock power-sharing, 25 years on from their historic deal. The UK's former prime minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart at the time, Bertie Ahern, pressed the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to emulate the vision of the territory's feuding leaders in 1998. "The only thing I would say to today's leaders is I think when you stand back and you reflect, you know in your heart of hearts what the right thing to do is, and you should just get on and do it,"...
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Ballina (Ireland) (AFP) - US President Joe Biden ended an emotive visit to Ireland on Friday with a campaign-style exhortation for hope, as he inched closer to formally launching his 2024 bid. The 80-year-old Democrat, who has Catholic Irish roots, had a tearful encounter with a priest before a concluding speech that coincided with an angry address back home by Donald Trump, his potential Republican rival for next year's White House battle. "I told you my plan is to run again," Biden told reporters before flying to the United States. "I've already made that calculus. We'll announce it relative...
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Dublin (AFP) - US President Joe Biden on Thursday declared "I'm home" as he was feted on a visit to his ancestral homeland Ireland, whose story he said proved the triumph of hope over despair. Gearing up for a potential election rematch against Donald Trump, the Irish-American Democrat dwelt on the success of Irish emigres in carving out a new life far from home. The United States and Ireland were joined in "not just the hope but the conviction that better days lie ahead", he said in a speech to the Irish parliament, after his motorcade was cheered by large crowds in Dublin. Seeming to draw a...
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Dublin (AFP) - US President Joe Biden rolled into Dublin on Thursday, holding talks with Irish political leaders in the homeland of his ancestors, before a set-piece address to the country's parliament. Biden, who is only the second Catholic president in US history, met Irish head of state Michael Higgins at his official residence before talks with the Taioseach (prime minister) Leo Varadkar. Watched by fellow octogenarian Higgins, Biden tapped into his Irish roots for a heartfelt message in the guest book. "As the Irish saying goes, your feet will bring you to where your heart is," he said he...
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Dublin (AFP) - US President Joe Biden on Wednesday began a nostalgia-filled tour of the Republic of Ireland, jetting in from Northern Ireland where he pushed for an end to political paralysis in the British province. Biden emerged from Air Force One at Dublin airport to driving wind and rain, and was greeted by the Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) Leo Varadkar and a sea of black umbrellas. The 80-year-old president calls Ireland "part of my soul", and his visit includes trips to the hometowns of his 19th-century ancestors. On the first such trip out of Dublin, to Carlingford Castle near North...
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Paris (AFP) - It's been a rite of passage for American leaders since John F. Kennedy, one which many describe as a highlight of their time in the Oval Office. After a whistlestop visit to Northern Ireland on Wednesday, Joe Biden travels south to the Irish Republic, where the proud great-great-grandson of Irish emigrants can look forward to a rockstar reception. He will be the eighth US president to visit Ireland, where over 30 million Americans have roots. AFP looks back at the other visits: Crazy for KennedyIn the 1960s while Britain was in the throes of Beatlemania, Ireland was crazy for Ken...
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Belfast (AFP) - US President Joe Biden landed in Northern Ireland on Tuesday, hoping to help maintain the fragile peace brokered 25 years ago after decades of sectarian violence over British rule. Before boarding Air Force One, Biden, 80, said the priority for his trip was "to keep the peace" and bring an end to the protracted political deadlock caused by opposition among pro-UK parties to post-Brexit trading rules. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met Biden on the tarmac when he touched down in the Northern Irish capital, just 24 hours after the landmark anniversary of the Good Friday/Belfast Ag...
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Belfast (AFP) - The British government said on Friday it would call elections in Northern Ireland within 12 weeks, the second time since May, after UK and local lawmakers failed to resolve a standoff over post-Brexit trade rules. Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris confirmed that talks with the UK province's fractious political parties had not yielded a breakthrough ahead of a Friday deadline to resume a power-sharing devolved government. "As of earlier today, an executive can no longer form and I am duty-bound by law to call new elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly... as soon...
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Belfast (AFP) - A deadline to resume power-sharing in Northern Ireland's regional government passed at midnight on Friday, setting the UK-run province on a course to its second election this year amid a political stand-off over divisive post-Brexit trade rules. The expiration of the legal cut-off point for the creation of a joint executive between pro-Ireland nationalists and pro-UK unionists, which the British government has vowed to enforce, came after parties made a last-ditch attempt to restart Northern Ireland's devolved assembly. In an argumentative Thursday session, lawmakers briefly ...
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London (AFP) - Northern Ireland on Wednesday appeared headed for a second election this year, after UK government efforts to resolve months of political stalemate over its post-Brexit status failed to find a breakthrough. Chris Heaton-Harris, Britain's Northern Ireland minister, has been holding talks with the political parties in a fresh bid to get them to form a new executive. If no agreement is reached by Friday, London will be legally required to call early elections for the devolved assembly in the volatile province. It has been without a functioning government since February, after the p...
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