Brown set for NI summit with Cowen

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to meet his Irish counterpart Brian Cowen at 10 Downing Street for talks on the situation in Northern Ireland
12 April 2012

Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to meet his Irish counterpart Brian Cowen at 10 Downing Street for talks on the situation in Northern Ireland, it was announced.

The meeting comes amid growing tension over the devolution process, with Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness demanding an emergency meeting with the DUP's Peter Robinson to save the power-sharing executive.

Mr Cowen's visit comes just 11 days after his last talks with Mr Brown in London, as the pace of negotiations over the state of the peace process steps up.

A Downing Street spokesman said that tomorrow afternoon's talks were "part of ongoing discussions on Northern Ireland".

The PM and the Taoiseach talk regularly by phone and were pleased to have the opportunity to meet face-to-face.

Republicans have accused the Democratic Unionist Party of doggedly refusing to work with the Stormont parliament as the fall-out deepens over the devolution of policing and justice powers.

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams warned yesterday that if an agreement can not be reached, then the institutions set up under the Good Friday Agreement can no longer continue.

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