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Joanna YORK

A ‘quiet success story’: How the Good Friday Agreement created an ‘all-Ireland’ economy

People look at the Peace wall in Belfast, which separates the two communities and has become a tourist attraction, on March 16, 2023. © Paul Faith, AFP

The signing of the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, 1998, opened channels for cooperation between businesses on either side of the Irish border and the emergence of an “all-island economy”. A quarter of a century later, shared economic ties are an important source of collaboration between north and south. 

Crumlin Road Gaol, once a prison in northwest Belfast, was for decades a potent symbol of Ireland's turbulent past.  

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