Ahern urged to recall peace forum

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern has been urged to recall a forum of political parties on both sides of the Border to resolve the crisis over the future of the IRA.

As Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern met Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness and SDLP leader Mark Durkan separately in Derry following two IRA statements this week, Green Party leader Trevor Sargent called for calm and a reconvening of the National Forum for Peace and Reconciliation.

"It is important to take stock of the peace dividend reduced paramilitary violence has brought in the last decade," the Dublin North TD said.