What Gerry Adams really said to David Trimble in the loo during peace talks
Drama bigs up Adams-Trimble encounter; Saoirse Ronan gets a knock-back; buskers object to Grafton Street development; and Sabina Higgins takes on a woolly role
David Trimble
Agreement: No play about the Good Friday negotiations has the right to be this much fun
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Owen McCafferty’s writing cuts through the Belfast peace talks’ seriousness to find levity in personal stakes and political bluster
Twenty five years on, there are calls for more North/South co-operation
Bertie Ahern calls for an end to prevarication and caution - ‘Get on with it’ he says
Stephen Grimason obituary: First journalist to get a copy of Belfast Agreement
‘I believe I was given the document to nudge [the agreement] over the line,’ he later said
Jeffrey Donaldson, at the heart of Northern Irish politics for nearly 40 years
From Enoch Powell to post-Brexit negotiations, former DUP leader has been an influential figure for decades
Jeffrey Donaldson destroyed David Trimble. Is he about to do the same to himself?
Donaldson will have to tread carefully to avoid splitting the DUP the way he split the UUP and prevent the civil war that transformed the UUP into a basket case
Ireland’s Charles and Diana wedding ‘snub’ along with five other curious tales
Finding a ‘face-saving’ name for the new NI police force; Trinity College Dublin takes offence; and Casement’s ‘black diaries’
John Bowman: Peace deal forced Fianna Fáil to dial down ‘lost Six Counties’ rhetoric
State papers: Newly-released files show how the signatories to the Belfast Agreement came to view it as the least worst option
David Trimble was ‘despairing and hysterical’ over unionist leadership heave
State papers: Former NI first minister grew increasingly frustrated during 2000 and 2001 as the IRA refused to decommission
Bronze bust of David Trimble unveiled at Leinster House
Former UUP leader jointly awarded Nobel Peace Prize with SDLP’s John Hume in 1998
Hume and Trimble commemoration in Derry to be addressed by Bertie Ahern
Former taoiseach to speak at event at Derry’s Guildhall by video link
Bust of late UUP leader David Trimble to be unveiled in Leinster House in December
Bust to be placed beside one of late John Hume and will be unveiled to coincide with 25th anniversary of awarding of Nobel Peace Prize to both men
Tourists in Belfast only want to hear about ‘The Three Ts’: Troubles, Titanic and (Game of) Thrones
Guiding visitors around Belfast requires maintaining a careful balance: thankfully most people come looking for enjoyment, rather than a fight
‘I have it in my hand’: The journalist who broke the story of the Belfast Agreement
Unionists were wavering and the future uncertain when Stephen Grimason revealed the deal on Good Friday 1998
‘Dad, it’s the White House on the phone’: David Trimble’s son and wife reflect on role he played in peace process
Family of former Ulster Unionist Party leader discuss his love of his music, the risks he was willing to take and frustration with Blair after the agreement
Anne Harris: Until the Belfast Agreement commemorations hove into view, Bertie Ahern was in the shadows
Is he the one contender who could seriously challenge any attempt by Sinn Féin to run Gerry Adams for President?
Hume and Trimble ‘put their careers and lives on the line’ for peace, says Bill Clinton
Former US president makes address in Derry at tribute event honouring architects of the Belfast Agreement
Interview: ‘Have you ever asked the British to leave?’ - Gerry Adams used to ask a new taoiseach
At 74, the former Sinn Féin leader has every intention of living long enough to see a united Ireland
Diarmaid Ferriter: North still not the shared society Belfast Agreement promised
Institutionalising two tribes and structuring power sharing accordingly is seen by many as flaw of accord
‘I found myself in between two great men’: Bono finds pride in the name of peace
Bono recalls being like ‘the referee at the big fight’ when David Trimble and John Hume took to the stage with him at a concert ahead of the Belfast Agreement vote
Prisoner release: A quarter-century later, this part of the Belfast Agreement is still an open wound
A quarter-century later, this issue is still an open wound. People who were hurt are still hurting
The Agreement part 2: When U2 showmanship helped conquer the foundering Yes campaign
Pacy and detailed film examines complicated factors at play in run-up to Belfast Agreement referendum
How murder of two best friends spurred final push for peace in North
Shooting by Loyalist Volunteer Force gunmen led to added ‘resolve’ to seal Belfast Agreement, according to RTÉ documentary
Bertie Ahern’s podcast tells a powerful story
Podcast review: Former taoiseach’s tone is conversational rather than confrontational
Agreement: An outstanding evening, a landmark play, a thoroughly deserved five stars
Theatre: Owen McCafferty’s searing new dramatisation of the Belfast Agreement negotiations is a political thriller with echoes of Greek drama
Patrick O’Kane on playing David Trimble: ‘It’s not my job to judge my character. Quite the opposite’
The actor play found it fascinating to follow the late Ulster Unionist leader’s hard road to compromise for Owen McCafferty’s play Agreement
Lloyd George’s Ireland or John Hume’s? The people gave their answer
Declassified State papers detail the journey to the Belfast Agreement, a deal some wholeheartedly endorsed but others reluctantly accepted
Setting up Northern Ireland Assembly likened to ‘Star Trek’ mission
Official warned partisanship, ‘culture of dependency’ and ‘permanent opposition mode’ would complicate process
Bertie Ahern threatened to stall over Articles 2 and 3 after Belfast Agreement
Then taoiseach said David Trimble had ‘done nothing’ on eve of Nobel prize award and feared ‘a lot of dangerous people’ had been let out of prison
Making sense of Brexit firebrand Steve Baker’s uncharacteristic apology
Tory MP offers a change of tone but his new job at the Northern Ireland office is unlikely to diminish his zealotry significantly, observers say
Conor Burns: The Tory minister from a nationalist family on rebuilding relationships between Britain and Ireland
Tory minister from a nationalist Belfast family says the protocol and the broken relationship of the British and Irish governments must be fixed
Fintan O’Toole: David Trimble was the only unionist leader to break Paisley’s noxious spell
Trimble was a rarity in politics. He rose to the top by being seen as personally rather unpleasant
With his jaundiced eye and sarky humour, it’s business as usual for Brendan O’Connor. Then his poise deserts him
Radio review: The Radio 1 presenter keeps his head when all about him are losing theirs. But awkwardness can creep in
David Trimble understood that unionism had to change
UUP leader took a difficult path and in the end, even unionism’s most entrenched enemies of change adopted his approach
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