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Editorial: Achievements and failures must be noted on 25th anniversary of peace process

With Stormont mothballed and stalemate prevailing, all stakeholders in the Good Friday Agreement must be open to revising it, not least to encourage the centre ground to flourish

The word ‘peace’ in Irish, English, Arabic and Hebrew projected on to the Lanark Way peace gates in Belfast. Picture: PA

It was always going to take something special, even heroic, to bring the Troubles to an end. The violence that disfigured Northern Ireland for 30 years from the end of the 1960s had multiple causes and multiple protagonists, from religion to colonialism.

Yet it was also about the failure of politics. The genius of the Belfast Good Friday Agreement, secured 25 years ago this weekend, was to recognise that fact.

Many people will look at ...