Northern Ireland leaders end 5-month deadlock

Updated Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:55 am TWN, AP

Northern Ireland leaders end 5-month deadlock

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Northern Ireland’s long feuding leaders ended a five-month deadlock Tuesday over the next steps ahead in sharing power, agreeing to form a new Justice Department that will oversee the police and courts. The governments of Britain and Ireland said handing control of justice matters to local hands will represent the final step in 15 years of peacemaking in Northern Ireland, where Catholics long rejected the authority of British law and order.

“It is of great importance that devolution of policing and justice powers proceed. Its successful completion will be the final piece of the jigsaw of the peace process,” said Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen in Dublin.

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