Pressure mounts on DUP over power sharing
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and British Premier Tony Blair insisted the March vote for a Belfast Assembly would only proceed if there was a real prospect of a cross-community government for the North.
The two leaders used a Downing Street summit to publicly welcome the Independent Monitoring Commission’s (IMC) report on paramilitaries and Sinn Féin’s historic decision to endorse civil policing.