Across Northern Ireland, communities who have suffered nearly three decades of violence watch events unfold at Stormont with a mixture of hope and cynicism.
With just hours to go before an agreement must be met for peace, people living in communities across Northern Ireland express a mixture of hope and fear for the future as the deadline approaches.
A day charged with hopes and fears and with such promise of history being made.
I have lived through 30 years of trouble in this country. Every year of it, every day of it, and I wish it would come to an end.
It's not just going to happen over night.
I just don't think it's ever going to be resolved.
The 'Talkback' radio programme on the BBC reflects the range of views across the sectarian spectrum. Listeners have been calling to express their opinions. Talkback presenter David Dunseith gives his assessment of the political mood in Northern Ireland on the basis of what listeners have said.
If you've been listening to Talkback over a number of days, you will have the hard edged views coming from people whether from the republican side or of the unionist side, they're not going to change. But there is a great mass of people in the middle who are not so sure.
The town of Poyntzpass in County Armagh represented a microcosm of how Catholics and Protestants could live in harmony. That image was shattered on 3 March 1998 when lifelong friends Phillip Allen, a Protestant, and Damien Trainor, a Catholic, were shot and murdered by Loyalist gunmen in a Catholic bar in the town. Damien Trainor's uncle, Colman Trainor, hopes that their lives were not lost in vain.
It would be a great comfort to both families if there was peace came out of this. Their sons didn't give away their lives away for nothing and there would be a way forward.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 9 April 1998. The reporter is Tony Connelly.
