Peace still comes dropping slow, 20 years on

The Good Friday Agreement did not create a six counties utopia but its signatories can at least console themselves in the knowledge that the violence has not returned Walls of peace: ‘There are now more peace walls in Northern Ireland than there were when the Good Friday Agreement was signed,’ says Adrian Johnston, chairman of the International Fund for Ireland. Sign of the times: Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, former US Senator George Mitchell and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair after the signing of The Good Friday Agreement set Northern Ireland in 1998.

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