The Good Friday Agreement brought an end to 30 years of carnage in Northern Ireland. More than 3,500 people were killed during the troubles - mostly by the IRA. The agreement has been used ever since as a model for statecraft. But 25 years have passed and that model is starting to show some cracks.
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