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News from the Wire Services Re: Ireland & the Irish

AP 01/13/98 06:23 Northern Ireland
PA 01/13/98 05:43 Mowlam Welcomes Response To Peace Blueprint
PA 01/13/98 03:42 More IRA Prisoners Set For Irish Jail Switch
RT 01/12/98 23:35 Blair Applauds 'Courage' Of Politicians
RT 01/12/98 23:05 BC-Ireland-O'Reilly (Personality Feature) ...

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				Northern Ireland

APn  01/13/98 06:23   

Copyright 1998 The Associated Press

   By SHAWN POGATCHNIK
 Associated Press Writer

   BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- Seventeen months after the 
start of negotiations, a proposal for peace that goes to the 
heart of the divisions in Northern Ireland was put on the 
table. Now the debate begins.
   The British and Irish governments, which until now had let 
local politicians set a snail's pace in the talks, advanced the 
process Monday by presenting a plan on how the troubled 
province should be governed.
   In a two-page document to be debated today, they said the 
province should be led by Protestants and Catholics sharing 
power in a Belfast assembly. The new legislature should also 
send representatives to a cooperative council with the 
neighboring Irish Republic that would be answerable to the 
Belfast assembly.
   The province's main Protestant and Catholic parties, 
deadlocked since the talks began in June 1996, applauded the 
plan, which was designed to strike an elusive balance between 
their two competing goals.
   While majority Protestants want to defend Northern Ireland's 
very right to exist, Catholics want to build ties with 
the bulk of Ireland that won independence from Britain 75 years 
ago.
   The Protestant bloc liked the central recommendation that 
Northern Ireland needs a strong local government, while the 
main moderate Catholic party said the document provided "a very 
welcome beginning."
   Only one of the eight local parties participating in the 
talks appeared uneasy. Leaders of the IRA-allied Sinn Fein 
party -- which joined the talks last September on the heels of 
the Irish Republican Army's July cease-fire -- said the plan 
failed to take seriously Sinn Fein's goal of a united Ireland.
   "No one has a right to rule out in advance the wishes of a 
majority of people on the island of Ireland," said Sinn 
Fein chairman Mitchel McLaughlin, arguing that most people 
wanted an end to the 1920 partition of Ireland that 
created a predominantly Protestant north.
   He said Sinn Fein wouldn't accept a settlement that placed 
primary importance on government inside Northern Ireland.
   But David Trimble, leader of the main Protesant party, the 
Ulster Unionists, said the British government "is committed to 
a Northern Ireland assembly" in which Protestant and Catholic 
politicians wield authority in proportion to their public 
support.
   He pointed with particular approval to one section of the 
document that says the Irish Republic will amend its 
constitutional claim to Northern Ireland.
   The governments want to make "consent" the central pillar in 
any settlement. That means it would take a clear majority of 
people within Northern Ireland to approve any change in its 
relations with Britain, another condition opposed by Sinn Fein. 
Opinion polls among the north's 1.6 million residents 
consistently show more than two-thirds are satisfied with 
remaining inside the United Kingdom.
   The Ulster Unionists governed Northern Ireland as a one-
party state from its creation in 1920 until 1972, when 
spiraling violence by the IRA, pro-British paramilitary groups 
and state security forces inspired the British government to 
take direct control.
   Northern Ireland's pro-British gangs have killed about 900 
people since 1966, soldiers and police about 350 since 1969, 
and the IRA about 1,800 since launching its campaign against 
British rule in 1970.

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		  Mowlam Welcomes Response To Peace Blueprint

PA   01/13/98 05:43   

Copyright 1998 PA News

  By Ian Graham, PA News
   Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam today welcomed the 
largely positive response from Ulster's political parties to 
the new Anglo-Irish blueprint aimed at giving fresh momentum to 
the peace process.
   All the parties involved in the talks have studied the 
proposals overnight and agreed to return to the talks today to 
discuss them.
   Ms Mowlam said: "I think it indicates a willingness to move 
forward. Most people were devastated by what happened over the 
Christmas period and are desirous to do all they can to move 
the process forward.
   "It is by moving the talks process forward that we are going 
to build the kind of confidence that will allow us to deal with 
the fringe elements that are out to destroy the peace process."
   Ms Mowlam insisted the propositions published yesterday were 
not set in stone. What they tried to do was pull together ideas 
that had already been in the talks.
   "It forms a kind of shape of where negotiations could 
focus," she told BBC Radio Ulster.
   "No-one is asked to agree to it, no-one has committed their 
support for it. It is about trying to find a mechanism to 
facilitate people to sit down and talk," she said.
   The problems before Christmas had been that people knew what 
they wanted to talk about but no party had been prepared to put 
its cards on the table first, she added.
   "We now have some cards on the table and I hope it allows us 
to start talking."
   She hoped it would allow the politicians to now get down to 
the detail. "As we all know, the devil is in the detail." Asked 
on BBC Radio 4's Today programme whether she believed that the 
talks still had the confidence of Sinn Fein, Ms Mowlam said the 
whole point of the process was negotiation.
   "I think there are a lot of parties who are being 
conspicuously quiet; who have picked out bits of the paper 
quickly that they support and there are bits of the paper that 
they don't support.
   "Sinn Fein said yesterday that they would go away and think 
about it and come back today."
   Dr Mowlam stressed that although no party was committed to 
all the proposals, it was a breakthrough and a step forward 
because the groups in the talks were still committed to a 
ceasefire.
 
   Ms Mowlam arrived at Stormont this morning, where she will 
attend a meeting of the confidence-building committee, which 
will deal with the sensitive and key issue of prisoners.
   The parties will meet later in the day for a plenary talks 
session where they will discuss the two governments 
blueprint presented yesterday.
   Arriving at Stormont Castle Buildings David Adams, of the 
Ulster Democratic Party, said he believed today's meetings had 
the potential to build on the initiative and push the process 
forward.
   He said he believed there was further potential for 
increasing unionist confidence and he was optimistic about 
the prospect of some progress being made today.

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		  More Ira Prisoners Set For Irish Jail Switch

PA   01/13/98 03:42   

Copyright 1998 PA News

  By Chris Parkin, PA News

   More IRA prisoners are set to be switched from Britain to 
Irish jails as part of continuing efforts to boost the 
Northern Ireland peace process.
   The latest transfers - likely this week - are expected to 
involve seven men and mark the biggest single repatriation of 
jailed terrorists under measures put in place last year by the 
London and Dublin governments.
   The new moves will leave around a dozen republican prisoners 
in Britain.
   There were unconfirmed signals in Dublin today that the 
transfers had been due to go ahead last week but postponed to 
avoid "diversionary complications" during Northern Ireland 
Secretary Mo Mowlam's controversial visit to loyalist 
paramilitaries in Ulster's Maze Prison in a successful bid to 
head off a threat to the peace process.
   The Irish High Court is understood to have granted the 
necessary legal clearance for the fresh set of transfers.
   Four IRA men were sent to Irish jails before Christmas in a 
development seen by the Dublin government as a key confidence-
boosting contribution to the peace process.
   They will complete their sentences in the high-security 
Portlaoise jail, 50 miles from Dublin.
   Last month the Irish parliament approved legislation to 
ensure that repatriated prisoners would complete whatever jail 
terms were imposed upon them by courts in Britain.

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		Blair Applauds 'Courage' Of N.Irish Politicians

RTw  01/12/98 23:35   

Copyright 1998 Reuters Ltd
 
    By John Morrison

     TOKYO, Jan 13 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Tony 
Blair on Tuesday praised Northern Ireland's fractious 
politicians for their response to a new peace proposal, saying 
they were showing "the courage to walk away from the darkness."
     Blair, speaking at a news conference at the end of a visit 
to Japan, said Monday's joint Anglo-Irish draft was 
important because "we have moved from symbolism to substance."
     "We are now talking about a real document with real items 
in it, a real framework on which we can build," Blair said.
     "And the best thing about what has happened is that people 
and politicians across the divide in Northern Ireland have 
summoned up the courage to walk away from the darkness and take 
at least the first steps into the light," he added.
     Injecting new verve into sluggish multi-party talks, 
Britain and Ireland proposed a new intergovernmental pact, 
an elected Northern Ireland assembly and an all-Ireland 
ministerial council.
     The proposals, which politicians from Protestant and Roman 
Catholic parties will discuss further on Tuesday, also envisage 
changes to the Irish republic's constitutional claims over 
Northern Ireland and to the legislation by which London rules 
the province.
     Blair's comments were his first public reaction since the 
document was unveiled on Monday, winning a moderate or 
favourable reaction from most of the political groups taking 
part in the Belfast talks.
     Blair spent much of his five days in Japan on the 
telephone to key participants in the peace process including 
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern and his own Northern Ireland 
Secretary Mo Mowlam.
     He said the new situation at the talks was "more 
unfamiliar territory" for the participants.
     "It is more difficult for them. It poses new challenges 
but my goodness it is more healthy and better in the long 
term," Blair said.
     He described the document as a balanced package, adding: 
"It has some bits in it that some people won't like from 
whatever side.
     "But at long last we have something that both sides of the 
community can use as an opportunity to debate the future in 
Northern Ireland in a constructive way," he said.
     The Belfast talks are due to end in May and Blair said he 
still believed that deadline could be met.
   REUTERS

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	   GNL :BC-Ireland-O'Reilly (Personality Feature) ...

RTw  01/12/98 23:05   

Copyright 1998 Reuters Ltd

  GNL :BC-IRELAND-O'REILLY (PERSONALITY FEATURE) FEATURE - 
Heinz boss O'Reilly seeks new challenges
     By Carmel Linnane

     CASTLEMARTIN, Ireland, Jan 13 (Reuters) - He is Ireland's 
only billionaire.
     His legendary success on the rugby field is matched only 
by his international success as an entrepreneur.
     He is the H.J. Heinz Co beans king and media magnate 
Anthony O'Reilly.
     The man who drove revenue at H.J. Heinz from $908 million 
to $11 billion during his 18-year reign announced last month he 
would hand over to his personally chosen successor, William 
Johnson, in April.
     But 61-year-old O'Reilly told Reuters in a rare interview 
at one of the grandest of his seven homes that he had no 
intention of hanging up his spurs.
     He said he planned to turn his attention to his other 
considerable interests throughout the world.
     O'Reilly, who qualified as a solicitor, said he soon 
realised that a profession allowed only limited scope to 
expand while business allowed infinite opportunity.
     "If I was working on a brief it excluded me from working 
on other cases, but in business if I created one widget 
there was nothing to stop me creating millions of widgets," he 
said.
     THE GIFT OF THE GAB
     The smooth talking Irishman has what his countrymen call 
the 'gift of the gab'.
     He has charmed his way into the homes of statesmen, 
politicians and captains of industry on both sides of the 
Atlantic.
     At the age of 37 he became president and chief operating 
officer of food giant H.J.Heinz. By 1987 he had succeeded the 
son of Heinz's founder to become the first non-family member to 
serve as chairman.
     Not content with handling a major international 
conglomerate O'Reilly simultaneously built up a personal 
empire in Ireland.
     Sitting in front of a blazing fire in his meticulously 
restored 28-room Georgian mansion, set on a 1,000 acre 
(404,700 hectares) working farm in County Kildare, O'Reilly 
told of his dual lifestyle while at the helm of Heinz.
     "I would leave my desk in Pittsburgh, catch the six 
o'clock flight to New York and at eight I was on a flight to 
Dublin," he chuckled.
     He said he held meetings all through the weekend in 
Ireland, sometimes without any sleep, and jumped on 
the last flight back to the United States to arrive at his desk 
in Pittsburgh by 7.30 a.m. -- ready for work as usual.
     The only sad note during a three-hour interview was when 
O'Reilly spoke, briefly, of his biggest regret -- the toll 
this gruelling regime took on his family.
     His first marriage to Australian Susan Cameron, who bore 
his three sons and three daughters, broke up in the 
1980s after 26 years.
     HARD WORK PAID OFF FOR O'REILLY
     But it was while O'Reilly was jetting back and forth 
across the Atlantic that his first Irish company, industrial 
holding group Fitzwilton Plc, started to pay dividends.
     By the time he had become president and chief operating 
officer of Heinz in July 1973, he also owned an ailing 
media group called The Irish Independent.
     Independent Newspapers Plc, as it is now known, spans four 
continents. Turnover this year is expected to 
exceed 1.0 billion Irish pounds ($1.4 billion), generating pre-
tax profit of 100 million Irish pounds.
     O'Reilly is also the largest shareholder in Ireland's 
first new mining venture in 21 years, Arcon International 
Resources which is headed by his son Tony Junior.
     He and his second wife, shipping heiress Chryss 
Goulandris, are major shareholders in Waterford Wedgwood 
Plc, maker of Ireland's renowned Waterford crystal -- a 
priceless chandelier of which glitters in his dining room.
     O'Reilly said he was very excited about the development of 
Waterford Wedgwood, which became the world's 
biggest crystal and ceramics group in December with the 
acquisition of Germany's Rosenthal AG.
     Observers of O'Reilly's meteoric rise say he was helped by 
his charismatic personality, which was particularly 
appreciated in the United States, home to an Irish-American 
population of about 40 million.
     "We were all a bit awe-struck by this guy who had been a 
great sportsman, had arrived at the top of Pittsburgh 
so young, and showed a range of abilities which seemed 
endless," a biography by Irish writer Ivan Fallon quoted 
senior Heinz executive Dick Beattie as saying.
     "He had this huge personality, and quick wit, and was the 
best speech-maker I ever heard. He could sing, play 
the piano, tell jokes, quote Oscar Wilde or Churchill - and he 
knew more about your business than you did."
     O'Reilly was always a mould breaker.
     At 26, he took on a moribund state body, the Irish Dairy 
board, and created the republic's first and arguably 
most successful international brandname - Kerrygold.
     Four years later he became managing director of the Irish 
Sugar company and its troubled unit Erin Foods.
     With considerable difficulty and equal determination 
O'Reilly wooed Heinz into a joint company with Erin Foods. 
Heinz-Erin, after considerable downsizing, returned to profit 
within a year.
     RUGBY HIS FIRST LOVE
     But the White Lion, as O'Reilly was sometimes known, 
admits that rugby was and is his first love.
     Born in Dublin in 1936 he won his first of 29 rugby caps 
for Ireland and 10 for the British and Irish Lions in 
1955.
     His 37 tries during a "Lions" tour of the best players 
from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales has never 
been equalled.
     Active in many cultural and charitable organisations, 
O'Reilly is chairman of the global Ireland Funds, which 
supports programmes encouraging peace and reconciliation 
throughout Ireland.
     O'Reilly, who will stay on as non-executive chairman of 
Heinz until the year 2000, made a point of endorsing his 
successor's accession to the throne of Heinz by increasing his 
personal stake in the group by 3.0 percent to 6.2 
million shares.
     He was already Heinz's single largest shareholder and 
currently holds stock worth about $320 million.
      Far from resting on his laurels O'Reilly said he would 
like to be the planner and strategist for a wide number of 
companies in the future.
      "I think India is a market we must look at," he said, his 
eyes lighting up with enthusiasm. "India is the lungs of 
the world."
  ($ - 0.728 Irish Pounds)
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Jay Dooling (jdooling@worldnet.att.net)
Irish Aires - 90.1FM KPFT in Houston
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Irish_Aires/homepage.htm
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