Good Friday Agreement

Good Friday Agreement: How Joe Biden's Ireland visit comes during turbulent times

American president Joe Biden's visit to Northern Ireland comes at a fragile time for the Good Friday Agreement, threatened by post-Brexit trade arrangements and political tensions

'Keep the peace': Joe Biden arrives in Northern Ireland to mark 25th anniversary of Good Friday Agreement

Northern Ireland has been significantly reshaped since unionist parties wanting to remain part of the UK and nationalists favouring reunification with Ireland struck a peace deal on 10 April 1998

Good Friday Agreement: How the secret back-channel between IRA and UK government restored peace in Northern Ireland

A ceasefire offer from the IRA was made through the back channel in early 1993 as a result of the covert communications that began in 1991. Even if the back-channel fell apart in the public eye in late 1993, it had already laid foundations for the agreement that followed

US President Biden to host Irish PM Leo Varadkar on St Patrick's Day

Biden and Varadkar will stress their support for the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement as we approach its 25th anniversary and welcome the recent agreement between the UK and EU on the Windsor Framework as an important step in preserving the Agreement's peace dividend

Biden says intends to visit Republic of Ireland, North Ireland to mark Good Friday peace accords

The Good Friday Agreement, signed April 10, 1998, was a political settlement that wound down three decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland

Conservatives-DUP deal may run foul of Good Friday Agreement: Irish parties may move court

Theresa May's proposed deal with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has run into a roadblock, with British legal experts checking if it would run foul of the Good Friday Agreement

UK Election 2017: DUP deal with Conservative Party spoils Northern Ireland power-sharing talks

Talks due to start on restoring a power-sharing deal in Northern Ireland risk becoming even more arduous as the province's DUP nears an alliance with Britain's Conservative Party