Former prime minister Tony Blair has called for a return to the political leadership that produced the Good Friday Agreement
Three years later, with hopes of breakthrough fading, the two prime ministers engaged with parties in a three-day negotiation.
"I am pleased to announce that the two governments and political parties of Northern Ireland have reached agreement," he said. His widow Daphne Trimble said:"He knew that it was a big leap into the dark, he was taking a step that had never been taken before, but it was one that he felt had to be taken.
"The fact is it happened, it's over, it's finished, those who pursued armed actions from the republican point of view felt they had no alternative, we provided an alternative, they embraced that alternative, the IRA went away," he added.
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