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‘It’s like 45 years of torture’: searching for the bodies of the Troubles’ victims

Without the remains of loved ones to grieve over, families feel the Northern Ireland conflict has not ended

The Guardian - UK

Nostalgia, rap tributes and violent tropes: has Northern Ireland really turned its back on the Troubles?

Celebrations are being planned to mark 25 years of the Good Friday Agreement but, with many romanticising the Troubles, the past can seem very present

The Guardian - UK

Thatcher was the accidental midwife of peace in Northern Ireland – today’s partisan leaders, take note

25 years on from the Good Friday agreement, the Iron Lady’s implacability and its unintended consequences are a lesson in humility, says Guardian Ireland correspondent Rory Carroll

The Guardian - UK

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Belfast’s peace walls: potent symbols of division are dwindling – but slowly

Dismantling of the barriers between Catholic and Protestant areas reflects undeniable progress in the 25 years since the Good Friday agreement, but the city remains deeply divided

The Guardian - UK

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

Held up as a model for peace, the historic agreement ended decades of violence in Northern Ireland over 58 tense hours

The Guardian - UK

Sinn Féin's Eoin Ó Broin refuses to clarify if he apologised to garda reps over eviction tweet

Sinn Féin's housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin was criticised in recent days over a picture he tweeting showing modern day gardaí at a famine era eviction.

Irish Mirror

Good Friday Agreement: how the US came to be a key broker in Northern Ireland's peace deal

Between 1820 and 1920, four million people emigrated from Ireland to the US. Many were fleeing hunger and destitution and so brought with them an “exile” nationalism – a conviction that they were forced to leave by British misgovernment and exploitation of Ireland. Little wonder, then, that the Irish diaspora…

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Good Friday Agreement: the early 1990s back-channel between the IRA and British government that made peace possible

In February 1990, in the midst of the Troubles, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness publicly invited the British government to reopen a back-channel used during previous phases of contact with the IRA in the 1970s and during the 1981 hunger strike.

The Conversation

Forth Meadow greenway Irish signs decision 'called-in'

Unionism and Belfast Council criticised for causing stymie with the Irish language

Belfast Live

Belfast Council agrees to commemorate Women's UDR on small majority in City Hall

Greens abstain on "disappointing" and "electioneering" debate and poll swings DUP direction

Belfast Live

Bill Clinton tells Prime Time it is a 'miracle' that Good Friday Agreement survived Brexit

In an interview to be broadcast on RTÉ's Prime Time, former US President Bill Clinton and former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will speak the impact Brexit has had on the Good Friday Agreement.

Irish Mirror

Sinn Féin to bring forward legislation to tackle nitrous oxide abuse among young people

Mark Ward, the party’s spokesperson on mental health, warned that young people are playing Russian Roulette by taking laughing gas

Irish Mirror

Simon Harris says Eoin Ó Broin's controversial eviction tweet 'cut deep' with gardaí

Speaking the annual AGSI confrence in Galway, Justice Minister Simon Harris said that Sinn Féin's Eoin Ó Broin had attempted to compare gardaí to "some sort of colonial force past" in his controversial tweet.

Irish Mirror

Eoin O Broin garda eviction tweet slammed as 'crass and ignorant'

Mr Ó Broin posted a picture of an image by artist Mála Spíosarí that is based on a famine-era eviction and includes photoshopped images of both masked and uniformed gardaí

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Fine Gael Minister brands Eoin Ó Broin garda eviction tweet 'crass and ignorant'

Fine Gael Minister of State Patrick O’Donovan said that the tweet from Sinn Féin's Eoin Ó Broin showing modern day gardaí at a famine-era eviction was an example of the "mask lifting"

The Guardian - UK

Only alter Good Friday deal with cross-community consent, says Tony Blair

Former PM cautions against ‘top down’ changes to Northern Ireland peace deal to protect power sharing

The Guardian - UK

Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor review – how they talked their way out of the Troubles

In this compelling account, the author and documentary-maker describes how decades of covert communications between the British government and the IRA eased the path to the Good Friday agreement – helped by an unlikely hero

Belfast Live

DUP accused of electioneering after making UDR proposal at Belfast City Hall

A motion is forwarded celebrating 50th anniversary of women in the regiment

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Bill to come before Dáil aimed at banning private jets from Irish airspace

Sinn Féin and People Before Profit both looking to crack down on the luxury travel

Irish Mirror

Government wins confidence motion following furious Dail debate

Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl branded the debate a "disgrace" as he criticised heckling from both sides during the fiery confidence debate following the decision to lift the eviction ban.

Belfast Live

Belfast Council to direct £220,000 underspend to antisocial behaviour in parks

Council committee chooses parks over glass recycling for windfall

Belfast Live

Belfast councillors asked to consider raising their own pay

Elected members agree it is "inappropriate" to give themselves a raise in allowances

Belfast Live

SDLP, TUV and Green Party leaders to address their annual conferences

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood, TUV leader Jim Allister and Green leader Mal O'Hara are set to address their party conferences

Belfast Live

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood: Unionists are engaging with our forum on Irish unity

He argued the SDLP is best placed to "convince the unconvinced" as Sinn Féin "can't reach into communities that we can reach into"

Irish Mirror

Independent TD Verona Murphy comes close to tears in Dail over eviction ban

Independent TD for Wexford Verona Murphy told the Dail that if one child in her constituency became homeless because of the decision to lift the eviction ban, she would sit the child in the Ceann Comhairle's lap.

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