Fifty years since Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday
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The Troubles in Northern Ireland
George mitchell was president bill clinton's special envoy. He spent more than three years commuting across the atlantic trying to bring northern ireland's warring factions together. A week before there still wasn't even a draft document. Both sides, unionists and republican, exploded. It was only then that serious negotiations began. By now, 57 people, including the two prime ministers, were encamped at castle buildings in stormont,. Working literally around the clock, as the snow fell outside. Paul murphy remembers snatching an hour or so of sleep on the floor of his boss’s office. ama o'callahan, long time observer of northernland politics says
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