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25 years on, is Northern Ireland keeping the peace?

The Good Friday Agreement put an official end to ‘The Troubles’ but other problems continue to haunt Northern Ireland.

A woman walks past a mural in Lendrick Street, a loyalist area in Belfast, Northern Ireland March 10, 2016
A woman walks past a mural in Lendrick Street, a loyalist area in Belfast, Northern Ireland March 10, 2016 [Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters]
Published On 10 Apr 2023

Twenty-five years after the Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland lives in an imperfect peace. There has been a dramatic reduction in violence since the worst of the “Troubles”, during which more than 3,600 were killed, but Northern Ireland continues to struggle with political stalemates, economic despair and paramilitary threats.

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Can the Good Friday Agreement continue to keep the peace?

In this episode: 

  • Leona O’Neill (@LeonaONeill1), head of undergraduate Journalism at Ulster University
  • Joshua Murray, journalist
  • Zachary Hutchinson, programme manager at the Centre for Democracy and Peace Building

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Amy Walters with Miranda Lin and our host, Malika Bilal. Khaled Soltan fact-checked this episode.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Munera AlDosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers. 

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.

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Source: Al Jazeera