Ahern: Seize chance of power-sharing

The opportunity for power-sharing in the North must be seized this year because it may not arise again for some time, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern warned today.

Next month’s gathering of the Northern Assembly members – for the first time since it was suspended in November 2002 – also coincides with the eighth anniversary of the ratification of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement by voters north and south of the Border.