Article: IRA making Northern Ireland power-sharing impossible, Irish premier says

SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
03-04-2004
Dateline: BELFAST, Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army activity is making the revival of Northern Ireland power-sharing impossible, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said Thursday in a speech directed at leaders of the IRA-linked Sinn Fein party.

Ahern, speaking at the Londonderry campus of the University of Ulster, told his audience _ among them Martin McGuinness and Mitchel McLaughlin, two of the top three figures in Sinn Fein _ that IRA activity "negates any prospect of achieving inclusive partnership politics in Northern Ireland."

Ahern, who was heckled by about a dozen lower-ranking Sinn Fein activists as he arrived, ...

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