Britain | Northern Ireland
Sliding back
|BELFAST
THE plan to bring Northern Ireland's multi-party talks to London on January 26th was originally intended to lend the peace process some momentum. Now the hope is to stave off collapse. On January 21st the IRA issued a statement rejecting the Anglo-Irish agenda for the talks. The peace process, it said, was “in crisis”.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Sliding back”
From the January 24th 1998 edition
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