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A nostalgia tour or a chance to consolidate the peace in Northern Ireland? On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement that ended decades of what was effectively sectarian civil war in an impoverished corner of Europe, a US president who is proud of his Irish Catholic heritage returns,…

Police and the NIFRS were called to the scene this afternoon

Editorial: The American president cannot solve the current impasse single-handedly. But US economic heft can help

President expected to emphasise US’s commitment to ensuring peace in Northern Ireland as he begins visit to island of Ireland

The signing of the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, 1998, opened channels for cooperation between businesses on either side of the Irish border and the emergence of an “all-island economy”. A quarter of a century later, shared economic ties are an important source of collaboration between north and south.

President Joe Biden’s opening of Ulster University is hugely symbolic, says the University’s student union President.

The plan introduces minimum social/affordable housing quota for developers from next month

American grit was essential to getting Northern Ireland’s warring sides to make peace 25 years ago with the Good Friday Agreement

The US President invoked the importance of the Good Friday Agreement and the recently negotiated Windsor Framework as he prepared to set off.

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