A breakthrough deal Friday to save Northern Ireland's Catholic-Protestant government has given a new lease of life to an awkward partnership of former foes that still must overcome many obstacles to survive. The prime ministers of Britain and Ireland stood beside Irish Catholic leader Martin McGuinness and British ...

HILLSBOROUGH, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - Northern Ireland is to take full control of its own police and justice system under a deal marking one of the boldest steps since a 1998 peace pact and ending a row that threatened to bring down Belfast's government. An agreement that will give Belfast its first justice minister by April 12 was reached late ...

BELFAST (Reuters) - Rival Northern Irish parties both said on Monday they believed they could reach a deal to end a row over police and justice powers that threatened to bring down their fragile government. The teams from the mainly Catholic nationalist Sinn Fein and the predominantly Protestant Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said on a seventh day of talks there were ...

HILLSBOROUGH, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - The residents of the small town of Hillsborough have lived through the highs and lows of the Northern Irish peace process at close quarters -- and many are losing patience. While the mood inside Hillsborough Castle, the scene for this week's crisis talks to try to bring a fragile power-sharing government back from the brink, has ...