Taoiseach moves to allay DUP constitution fears

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern yesterday tried to reassure the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) that the constitutional question has been settled in the Good Friday Agreement.

Mr Ahern was speaking in Kiskeam, Co Cork, yesterday, at the graveside of Sean Moylan, a War of Independence leader, who went on to become a minister in Fianna Fáil governments headed by Eamon de Valera.

“No one on this island is threatened or needs to feel under threat. I made that very clear in my recent visit to Belfast. I said that the constitutional question had been settled in the Good Friday Agreement.