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One News: Tommie Gorman, Northern Editor, reports live from Hillsborough on the issues raised at a meeting between Dermot Ahern, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Peter Hain, NI Secretary
The Northern Secretary, Peter Hain, said today that the British government will not be building any nuclear plants in Northern Ireland.
He gave the commitment at a meeting of the British-Irish intergovernmental conference in Hillsborough.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dermot Ahern, and the Minister for Justice & Law Reform, Michael McDowell, represented the Government.
Speaking afterwards, Mr Ahern said he welcomed today's announcement.
However, he said the Government would continue with its legal challenge to Sellafield and is opposed to any new nuclear plants being constructed anywhere in the UK.
Government objections to the existing plant at Sellafield in Cumbria are well-known.
