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After three days of talks, the British and Irish governments unveiled a plan Friday for resurrecting a Catholic-Protestant administration for Northern Ireland — a deal that, to succeed, will require concessions by both sides.
The prime ministers of Britain and Ireland, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, announced at St. Andrews, Scotland, that they — but not yet Northern Ireland’s rival leaders — had agreed on a blueprint to revive power-sharing, the goal of the Good Friday peace accord of 1998.
Blair and Ahern said Sinn Fein must act first by recognizing the Northern Ireland police, a force the IRA spent decades trying to destroy.
