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

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Watch live as Joe Biden leaves Joint Base Andrews in Maryland as he departs for a four-day visit to Northern Ireland and Ireland in a trip marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

Martin McDonnell, 19, had been due to get married In Northern Ireland in just three weeks

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.

The permanent secretary said the UK government's "refusal to act in a timely fashion is making matters needlessly worse"

Heavy rain will spread across Northern Ireland followed by high winds

Peace comes dropping slow, wrote the poet William Butler Yeats. And even when peace does come, it must be nurtured and vigilantly protected like a vulnerable sapling.

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