Premiers Push for Northern Ireland Deal
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. As he moved between separate meetings with Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, the Rev. Ian Paisley – whose Democratic Unionist Party represents the British Protestant majority – said he didn’t expect a deal this week with the Irish Catholic party, Sinn Fein.Full Story