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The commemoration at the Abbey Theatre featured artists and writers from both sides of the border and beyond

Abbey Theatre commemorative event marks GFA anniversary

The Government has marked the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement with a commemorative event, that included contributions from poets, musicians, and writers.

Good Friday Agreement • 02 Apr 23

David Donoghue said that the high hopes that everyone had after the deal was agreed in 1998 have not been realised on the scale that he imagined (File pic: RollingNews.ie)

'Uniquely promising state of affairs' helped secure GFA

One of the key Irish Government negotiators for the Good Friday Agreement has said he is disappointed that more was not achieved following the signing of the peace deal 25 years ago.

Good Friday Agreement • 02 Apr 23

Watch: news2day Friday, 31 March 2023

Schoolkids in Newry hear about life before the Good Friday Agreement. Molly meets some young authors who have their books on display in Trinity College. And we get to see a baby vulture!

news2day • 31 Mar 23

Watch: news2day Thursday, 30 March 2023

Molly tells us all about the Good Friday Agreement and there are more stories from Ireland and around the world!

news2day • 31 Mar 23

RTÉ announces special coverage to mark Good Friday Agreement

RTÉ announces special coverage to mark Good Friday Agreement 25th Anniversary

Good Friday Agreement • 31 Mar 23

The Peace Link sports campus provides facilities for all, regardless of 'creed, colour or nationality'

The Peace Link: Reconciliation through sport

As the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement approaches, there will be a lot of discussion of how the agreement changed the lives of people in the north and the border counties. This is a story about how communities in a small part of the region, have been brought together by peace and sport

Good Friday Agreement • 29 Mar 23

Kenneth Branagh winner of the Writing (Original Screenplay) award for 'Belfast' poses in the press room at the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on March 27, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Photo: David Livingston/Getty Images

A work in progress: post-Agreement cinema in Northern Ireland

Good Friday Agreement • 30 Mar 23

A safe home: growing up after the Good Friday Agreement

Anna McKinney worked on the new documentary The Agreement, but she wasn't yet born when the GFA was signed. Working on the series made her realise how much Northern Ireland has changed.

Good Friday Agreement • 03 Apr 23

Massive security plans for Biden's visit to Ireland

US President Joe Biden is set to visit Ireland next month to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

Ireland • 27 Mar 23

Ag féachaint siar ar Chomhaontú Aoine an Chéasta

Sa tsraith speisialta agallamh faoi Chomhaontú Aoine an Chéasta atá ag an gclár, beidh Máirín i mbun comhrá le Máirtín Ó Fainnín iar-thaidhleoir leis an Roinn Gnóthaí Eachtracha a bhí ag obair leis an Rannóg Thuaidh theas

RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta. • 27 Mar 23

Then taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Mo Mowlam speak to the media in 1998 after a meeting to discuss the progress of the Good Friday Agreement

The women who were crucial to the Good Friday Agreement

25 years after the Good Friday Agreement was signed at Stormont in Belfast and "sectarianism is still part and parcel of everyday life in Northern Ireland", according to journalist Emma DeSouza.

Politics • 21 Mar 23

Back to the Future: Human Rights and Equality in the GFA

The Good Friday Agreement enshrined a commitment to protecting human rights and created obligations on the British and Irish governments in international law, as Christopher McCrudden explains.

Good Friday Agreement • 30 Mar 23

How unionism's old distrust of the south threatened the agreement

Unionists had feared "the south" had designs on the north since the Treaty was signed in 1921. This distrust led to serious tension during the lead up to the Belfast Agreement, as Marie Coleman explains

Good Friday Agreement • 30 Mar 23

Event is being organised by Queen's University and will be the mainstay of the official programme of events

Global leaders to attend GFA conference next month

Global leaders are expected in Belfast next month for a three-day conference to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

Ulster • 09 Mar 23

Car clamping, scandal and a World Cup: what else happened in '98?

Good Friday Agreement • 08 Mar 23

The Good Friday Agreement

The groundbreaking Good Friday Agreement was voted for by people all over Ireland in April 1998

Good Friday Agreement • 04 Apr 23

The poll also suggested a majority of people across Northern Ireland believe the DUP should re-enter government at Stormont

Poll finds unionists now oppose Good Friday Agreement

A majority of unionists would vote against the Good Friday Agreement if the referendum was held today, a new opinion poll has suggested.

Politics • 28 Jan 23

Ibec today launched a report into the economic and social benefits of the Good Friday deal

Good Friday deal brought prosperity to island - Ibec

The huge economic growth across the island of Ireland during the past 25 years would not have been possible without the Good Friday Agreement, according to business group Ibec.

Business • 18 Jan 23

An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, US Senator George Mitchell and British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the Good Friday Agreement announcement in 1998

David McCullagh on one man's journey to the Good Friday Agreement

Books • 09 Oct 22

Direct Rule Over Northern Ireland from Westminster (2002)

Direct Rule From Westminster

The British government is to reimpose direct rule from Westminster over Northern Ireland from midnight.

Northern Ireland • 14 Oct 22

The committee is made up of well-known Irish-American politicians and business leaders

US committee says UK acting in 'bad faith' on protocol

A US cross-party committee to protect the Good Friday Agreement has issued a strongly worded statement criticising the British government's plans to overturn parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol.

Europe • 17 Jun 22

The third and final season of Derry Girls is currently airing on Channel 4

Derry Girls to end with Good Friday Agreement episode

Derry Girls will end with a 45-minute extended episode set at the time of the Good Friday Agreement.

Television • 29 Apr 22

Trimble pressed Blair on cross-border bodies (Pic: RollingNews.ie)

Keeping a 'frightened' Trimble onside

The final chaotic scramble to get the Good Friday Agreement over the line is revealed in newly released State Papers, which detail the close contact between Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair.

State Papers • 30 Dec 21

The letter to Boris Johnson was signed by 36 members of the US Congress from both political parties

Congress members call on UK to scrap Troubles amnesty

Members of the US Congress have written to the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling on the British government to reaffirm its commitment to the Stormont House Agreement and reverse a proposed amnesty to address the legacy issues of the Troubles.

US • 16 Sep 21

Families protest over plan to ban Troubles prosecutions

A silent protest was held at Stormont today against proposals by the British government to ban prosecutions for Troubles murders.

Ulster • 29 Jul 21