‘British must deliver on Agreement’

THE deadlock in the Northern peace process will only be broken by St Patrick’s Day if the British Government delivers on the outstanding promises of the Good Friday Agreement, Sinn Féin chairperson Mitchel McLoughlin claimed yesterday.

A fresh bid to restore the collapsed Northern power-sharing executive will be made on March 3 when British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern meet with all the parties again in Belfast.

Mr McLoughlin is currently on a tour of Munster asking people to support the Good Friday Agreement to save the peace process. The British and Irish Governments failed to produce anything new at the meeting of all parties in Hillsborough Castle last week, Mr McLoughlin claimed.