DROGHEDA, Ireland (AP) - Irish Prime Minister Bertie
Ahern and the Protestant leader of Northern Ireland, Ian Paisley, have
heralded a new era of peace on Ahern's last day in office.
The two men came together Tuesday on a 1690 battlefield
where divisions between Protestant and Catholic were drawn. They saluted
the cooperation and peace that both men helped forge and opened a tourist
center at the battle site.
Paisley is expected to step down within the next month as
leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and as first minister of the
Catholic-Protestant administration in Northern Ireland. Ahern is tendering
his resignation later Tuesday in Dublin after 11 years in power in the
Republic of Ireland.
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