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Efforts to re-start the process chaired by Haass are getting under way in the wake of last Friday’s elections.
Haass was in Dublin today, but won’t be back in Ireland for party leaders’ talks.
Alan Brecknell of the Pat Finucance Centre explains how victims’s families could be helped.
Eamon Gilmore scheduled the meeting with Haass when he spoke with him on Monday.
Gerry Adams said that he wanted confirmed his support for the PSNI after Sinn Féin had questioned their independence.
Eamon Gilmore told the Dáil that talks on the contentious issues of flags, parades and the past were “derailed” after the release of John Downey.
The US diplomat will be recognised for his efforts in helping reconcile the North.
Comments by Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness in relation to some of the unionist influence over the Haass talks have angered the leader of the DUP.
The former US president will be in the city on 5 March to open the William J. Clinton Leadership Institute at Queen’s University.
Party President Gerry Adams says they are keen to compromise.
The Sinn Féin Ard Comhairle will review the outcome of the Haass talks on parades, flags and the past today in Dublin.
While Richard Haass put the blame for the breakdown at the door of the unionist and Alliance parties, Martin McGuinness says it is time to compromise.
The vice-chair of recent talks told RTÉ’s Prime Time that some parties are continuing to focus on the parts of the deal they disagree with.
The talks chair said that he hoped the parties would continue to work to achieve agreement.
The Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland made the comments as the Haass-O’Sullivan team published a summary of the proposed deal.
Negotiations on a number of contentious issues ended earlier this week but it’s still not clear whether it will be accepted by all five parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.
The ‘silo mentality’ of Stomont doesn’t solve controversial issues or give the public confidence in politics – and it’s the reason Haass came up against a brick wall when he tried to forge common ground, writes David McCann.
The Sinn Féin leader has called on all parties to “grasp the opportunity” and reach a deal on contentious issues.
Both leaders discussed the matter this morning and urged all sides to focus on the common ground agreed during the process.
Sinn Féin says that the proposals ‘did provide a basis for agreement’ while the DUP wants more time to consider areas of ‘profound disapproval’.
The final day of negotiations began at 10am this morning.
The talks are on new arrangements for holding parades, flying flags and dealing with the legacy of past violence in the North.
Everyone’s been talking about Ian Paisley, an Irish man who died in Perth, and a suicide bomb at a Russian train station…
Intensive talks will begin again at 6am tomorrow with a deadline set for 12 noon.
A deal must be reached tomorrow, says the former US diplomat.
“It’s going to be an interesting night,” the US diplomat told reporters, as he arrived at Belfast’s Stormont Hotel.
Former US diplomat Richard Haass is seeking a deal before Christmas.
Eamon Gilmore has said that the government does not have any information that the US carried out surveillance on its activities.
Richard Haass has been asked to chair an all-party panel that will make recommendations on how to deal with the most divisive issues by the end of the year.