The Good Friday Agreement, signed 25 years ago this month, effectively brought an end to more than three decades of violence that had racked the country
Michelle O'Neill says there was "no alternative" to IRA violence during the Troubles, but says that now, the Good Friday Agreement provides an alternative to conflict. Politicians in Northern Ireland are critical of O'Neill's notion that there was "no alternative" to violence.
Tributes were paid at the Belfast funeral of Irish TV journalist Aideen Kennedy - who was the last surviving sibling of four children in a tragic turn of events for her heartbroken parents.