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But the former US president said excuses can always be found to say no.

The prime minister will hail the "precious legacy" of the Good Friday Agreement in Belfast later.

But the former US president said excuses can always be found to say no.

Amidst the veneration of the Belfast Agreement taking place at Queen’s University this week, there has been a less than subtle message: that the DUP should get back to work and re-join the devolved executive at Stormont. One of the many banging that particular drum – and unlikely to feature in any Orange parade this

His surprise appearance came after delivered a speech inside the citys Guildhall to mark the anniversary of the 1998 agreement that ended most of the violence of The Troubles in N. Ireland.

In the face of difficult compromises in 1998, Leo Varadkar said that “vision, leadership and optimism triumphed”.

Succeed in 1998 when so many had failed before? i believe that�*s because people on all sides showed courage, imagination and perseverance. first, those who work for peace who had the courage to keep going despite daily threats to them and theirfamilies keep going despite daily threats to them and their families and the political courage to take risks in pursuit of a higher goal. john hume over his entire career never relented in his insistence on non—violence. david trimble took enormous ri...

Former US President Bill Clinton stopped by Guildhall Taphouse in Derry on April 18 after delivering a keynote at a John and Pat Hume Foundation event.

The Prime Minister was speaking at the Queens University conference marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

More optimistic and hopeful. because to paraphrase the late david trimble, there may be hills ahead of us but there are mountains behind. and i want to close by reflecting on an extraordinary story. just weeks before the agreement, two lifelong friends damien trainor and philip allen were murdered at points pass. one was a protestant, the other catholic. the people who murdered them may have helped to sow chaos and division and to derail the peace talks. they failed. because the story of this re...