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Joe Biden noted a glass building in that location during the Troubles ‘would not have stood up’ amid the bombs.

President Joe Biden arrived Tuesday in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on a trip that will also take him to the Republic of Ireland to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement and visit his ancestral homeland.

The event was held at Stormont’s Great Hall.

"But they did what was right for the people they represented and history will judge them favourably"

A number of events are taking place to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

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

Historic peace treaty brought republicans and unionists together after decades of violent political conflict in Northern Ireland, a period of trauma and turmoil known as the Troubles

As the French and Chinese presidents, Emmanuel Macron and Xi Jinping, were discussing the need for more constructive international engagement to end the war in Ukraine, it emerged this week that Ukraine, too, was open to reconsidering its options. A top adviser to Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, noted that Kyiv…

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…