By AFPMore by this AuthorDUBLINIrish prime minister Enda Kenny expressed concern Sunday that a proposed alliance between Britain's ruling Conservatives and Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) could pose a "challenge" to peace in the province. In a phone call with British Prime Minister Theresa May, Kenny warned that efforts to shore up her minority government with the hardline Protestant DUP should not put at risk the Good Friday peace accords. "They discussed the outcome of the UK general election and the (British) prime minister outlined the proposed supply and confidence arrangement between her party and the DUP," a spokesman for the Irish government said. POWER-SHARINGBefore the 1998 peace deal, Northern Ireland was plagued by violence over Britain's control of the province. Kenny is due to hand over power this week to his successor as leader of the ruling Fine Gael party, Leo Varadkar.

Source: Daily Nation June 11, 2017 16:07 UTC