Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams holds a copy of an agreement transferring police and justice powers from London to Belfast at a news conference in Hillsborough, Northern Ireland, Feb. 5, 2010. (Julien Behal/Pool/Reuters)
Robinson: Northern Ireland agreement means "politics is working"
Irish and British prime ministers gather with Northern Ireland leaders to celebrate new agreement.
DUBLIN, Ireland ― What started four weeks ago as a sex scandal that threatened to plunge Northern Ireland into crisis has ended in a new political agreement that strengthens the province’s unique power-sharing arrangements.
British prime minister Gordon Brown and his Irish counterpart Brian Cowen flew to Hillsborough Castle outside Belfast before dawn yesterday to celebrate...
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