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Huge security operation under way in Belfast as police recover pipe bombs in Derry

Peace is undermined not just by paramilitary groups, but by the austerity that fuels them, says political commentator Sarah Creighton

Police and secret service vehicles descended on the city ahead of the US President ‘s arrival.

In his main engagement in Northern Ireland, Mr Biden will deliver a keynote speech at Ulster University's new £350 million Belfast campus.

Biden will highlight agreement that largely ended Catholic-Protestant violence, and endorse a trade agreement that followed Brexit.

After three decades of conflict that left 3,500 people dead, the 1998 Good Friday Agreement reached by the political protagonists in Northern Ireland found common ground for power-sharing between unionists, who want Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom, and republicans, who call for a united and independent…

Northern Ireland is at peace, but still divided

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Comments come as Joe Biden prepares to fly in to give speech in Belfast to mark 25th anniversary of pact