Ahern and Blair agree plan for North

THE Irish and British governments last night agreed plans for an all-out push to restore the North’s power- sharing Executive.

After a crucial peace summit in London, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said the governments had charted a work programme for the next six weeks.

Mr Ahern said he remained hopeful that real progress could be made ahead of fresh Northern Ireland elections planned for May and also to mark the fifth anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, signed in April 1998.