New peace deal 'must end paramilitarism': Ahern

The next peace process deal in the North must ensure loyalist and republican paramilitarism disappears forever, the new Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern insisted today.

After the Government’s landmark meeting in Dublin yesterday with DUP leader the Reverend Ian Paisley and his deputy Peter Robinson, Dermot Ahern said they were impressed by the DUP’s genuine desire to resolve remaining problems in the process.