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Conor Coyle

The Clinton Centre: Row over Fermanagh ‘peacebuilding’ campus as former US President prepares for GFA25 visit

Former US President Bill Clinton will arrive to Northern Ireland next month for the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, yet one Co Fermanagh building which bears his name remains a reminder of the fragile peace here.

Clinton officially opened the Clinton Centre in Enniskillen in 2002 as a peace centre, at the site of the 1987 Remembrance Day bombing which caused the deaths of 12 people in the town.

While an art gallery, a cafe and a youth hostel operated at the building in the decade afterwards, by 2017 all had shut and left the Clinton Centre idle, with its condition deteriorating.

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