The Taoiseach said yesterday he still believed it was possible to resolve the difficulties in the peace process.
While condemning the bombing as "entirely unhelpful in a difficult, tense situation", Mr Ahern said he believed there was still a way out of the current problem. "We will do everything we humanly can to achieve this."
Mr Ahern said the people who organised the Sunday night bomb had no real interest in seeing anything constructive ever happen.
"They are out to try and make life more difficult for the responsible republican leadership who are trying to find ways of moving the Good Friday agreement to its totality." A Government spokesman said last night that work would continue in the coming days to seek the "clarity" in relation to the issue of decommissioning. Irish officials flew to London yesterday to talk with their counterparts there.