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The Good Friday Agreement referendum 20 years on

Twenty years ago voters across Ireland delivered their verdict on the Good Friday Agreement. Political Correspondent John Manley looks back on a divisive campaign that ultimately secured emphatic support for the peace accord

Bono with David Trimble and John Hume at a U2-Ash concert at Belfast's Waterfront Hall days before the 1998 referendum. Picture by Pail Faith

JOHN MANLEY

22 May, 2018 01:00

ON this date 20 years ago almost one million people across the north went to the polls to register their support or rejection of the Good Friday Agreement – a turnout of more than 81 per cent. In the[...]

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