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30/03/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, The Good Friday Agreement

The deal which brought peace to Northern Ireland after decades of violence.

At Easter in 1998 a historic deal brought peace to Northern Ireland, ending decades of violence and bomb attacks.

In 1998, the political parties in Northern Ireland reached a peace agreement that ended decades of war. But the Good Friday Agreement, as it became known, was only reached after days of frantic last-minute negotiations. In 2012, Louise Hidalgo spoke to Paul Murphy, the junior minister for Northern Ireland at the time.

PHOTO: Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern (L) and British Prime Minister Tony Blair (R) pose with the mediator of the agreement, Senator George Mitchell. (AFP/Getty Images)

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