IOL: Taoiseach reiterates call for end to republican paramilitarism. In a speech at the University of Ulster in Coleraine, Mr Ahern said it would be impossible to persuade the DUP to share power with Sinn Féin while there was still a threat of force from the IRA.
EU Business: Ireland hopes to host Bush during spring EU-US summit, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said Wednesday, although details have still to be confirmed with the White House.
Online.ie: "The Taoiseach has admitted that a Constitutional Referendum on property rights is likely. Bertie Ahern was responding to opposition questions in the Dail on ways to tackle the spiralling cost of development land for housing. "
EU Business - UN envoy sees "real chance" of reunified Cyprus by May 1. "We have a real chance now. I think the political momentum is considerable," de Soto told reporters in Dublin after talks with Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern.
Online.ie: "Bertie Ahern, says he never suspected there was corrupt practice in Government in the late 1980s. Speaking on national radio this morning, Mr. Ahern said elected representatives are far more accountable now.
Irish Examiner: "The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has said countries with difficulties about a new EU constitution should compromise quickly, because agreement will become more difficult with time. Mr Ahern was speaking in Rome after talks with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi."
RTE News: "The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has reiterated in the Dail that he has no recollection of a telephone conversation with Tom Gilmartin, during which the property developer claims to have told him that he had donated £50,000 to Fianna Fail."
RTENews: "The Taoiseach earlier told the Dᩬ neither he nor his legal team received a letter from the Mahon Tribunal, relating to an alleged promise to supply documents back in 1999. In reply to questions, he said former minister Padraig Flynn had not offered to repay £50,000 which he received from builder Tom Gilmartin, to the party."
IOL: The Taoiseach will meet the Palestinian Prime Minister and the German Chancellor in Dublin later today.
Belfast Telegraph: "THE newly-appointed US special envoy for Northern Ireland was meeting Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern in Dublin today to discuss the current review of the Good Friday Agreement."
