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Article: Northern Ireland: The Good Friday solution.
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- New Zealand International Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
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Colm McKeogh backgrounds the Northern Ireland Peace Accord achieved at Easter 1998.
To the surprise of many who had observed the political situation in Northern Ireland over the past decades, an agreement was reached between the political parties in Northern Ireland on Good Friday, 10 April this year. The biggest surprise was the agreement of Sinn Fein to a political settlement of the Northern Ireland conflict that stopped far short of a united Ireland. Many had seen no end in sight to the Sinn Fein refusal to recognise the state and to the violence of the IRA and had hoped for no more than a gradual dwindling in support for their stance. Irish governments of the ...