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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lisa O'Carroll

How did the Good Friday agreement come about and why is it so significant?

Then taoiseach Bertie Ahern and former prime minister Sir Tony Blair sign the Good Friday agreement
Former prime minister Sir Tony Blair and then taoiseach Bertie Ahern sign the Good Friday agreement 25 years ago. Photograph: John Giles/PA

The historic Good Friday agreement that ended three decades of the Troubles, brought peace to Northern Ireland and saw the Irish Republican Army and others lay down their arms, is 25 years old this Easter.

It was signed on 10 April 1998, which fell on Good Friday that year, and led to a joint Nobel peace prize for David Trimble and John Hume, leaders of the Ulster Unionist party and the SDLP.

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