No budging on Good Friday Agreement, says Ahern

THE Good Friday Agreement has already been reviewed and must not be re-negotiated again, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said yesterday.

Mr Ahern rejected comments by the Democratic Unionist Party that the 1998 accord was now dead and that a new beginning was needed.

Mr Ahern said the agreement was reviewed for most of 2004 with political parties in Northern Ireland and was accepted by the DUP and other political parties in Northern Ireland before the aborted power-sharing deal last December.