TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern yesterday reiterated his view that progress was being made in the search to arrive at an agreement that would see Sinn Féin and the DUP sharing power in the North.

LISTENING to Gerry Adams at the weekend and Mitchell McLoughlin on RTÉ's Q&A last Monday brought my mind back to the heady days of the Good Friday Agreement and the consequent referendum.

THE United States yesterday backed British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s demand that the IRA should clarify its commitment to the peace process.

Nationalist politicians in Belfast are asking if the shooting of a man in the city centre last night by police was justified.

Sinn Féin is warning the Irish and British Governments against any attempt to renegotiate the Good Friday Agreement as a means of breaking the impasse in the peace process.