Democratic Unionist Party, DUP, leader Peter Robinson, second left, speaks to the media during a break in political talks at Hillsborough Castle, Belfast, Northern Ireland Friday Jan. 29, 2010. Rival leaders of Northern Ireland's faltering Catholic-Protestant administration were edging closer to a new power-sharing deal Friday following a marathon diplomatic effort, British and Irish officials said. Northern Ireland's peacemaking coalition — the central achievement of the province's 1998 peace accord — has teetered on the brink of collapse since the major Irish Catholic party, Sinn Fein, warned it could end its awkward partnership with the major British Protestant party, the Democratic Unionists. (AP Photo/ Paul Faith/PA Wire)AP – Rival leaders of Northern Ireland’s faltering Catholic-Protestant administration edged closer to a new power-sharing deal Friday following a marathon diplomatic effort, but negotiators on both sides said the final hurdles might be too high to clear.


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