Category Archives: Northern Ireland
Good Friday Agreement remembered
A Personal Memory by Jimmy Burns The author, who covered Northern Ireland during the 1990’s as a journalist with the FT , remembers the key final stages of the peace process that led to the historic deal. With the approach of the 25th anniversary of the Belfast Good Friday agreement, and what promises to be a make or break in terms of the latest attempt to settle stormy waters in the province with a planned visit by President Biden later this month (April), personal memories flood back of …