Today marks the 30th anniversary of the IRA ceasefire.
It was a key turning point during the Troubles resulting in the Belfast Agreement and a transition to peace.
Loyalist paramilitaries followed suit two months later, ceasing “all operational hostilities” – marking the beginning of the end of decades of violence.
Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern says many people didn’t believe that the ceasefire would end the Troubles……………….
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