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Subscribe              I N S I D E R           Apr 22, 2023             Ben Lowry Editor   There was some fine weather in Belfast this week with all our visitors in town for the Belfast Agreement anniversary, particularly Thursday - I hope they were still around to enjoy it. We continued our essays on 1998 and its aftermath, from this posthumous one by David Trimble, to essays by our columnist Ruth Dudley Edwards, the economist Dr Esmond Birnie, the former Taoiseach John Bruton, and the ex Ulster Unionist leader Reg Empey Another contributor was the academic John Wilson Foster, whom I always read with interest given his experience of living on both sides of the Atlantic Here are some sceptical observations on this week's events from the academic Dr Cillian McGrattan and from me in my own column I always remember the BBC's John Ware confronting Colm Murphy over the Omagh bomb and a startled Mr Murphy saying that the atrocity was "a terrible happenin' ". Yet he was found by a civil court to have been a culprit in that appalling massacre, and he was suspected of being behind others too. Most people will have thought of his victims on learning of his well attended funeral Very sad news the death of the Northern Irish mountaineer Noel Hanna. I have interviewed or talked to several of the NI folk who have reached the highest point on earth but never Noel. I would love to have asked about his scaling of the more deadly K2, a stunning achievement -- Ben Lowry Editor   --             Ben Lowry: Bill Clinton helped to illustrate how the US, EU and Ireland envisage Northern Ireland being run   Read more +     Belfast Agreement @25: London will not upset Sinn Fein or Dublin but has no such fear of DUP, writes John Wilson Foster   Read more +           Cillian McGrattan: ​The two universities cancelled unionism in their celebrations of the Belfast Agreement anniversary                     ​The two local universities – Queen's and Ulster – have taken noticeably different approaches to commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Belfast Agreement.           Read more +     Subscribe today             Full access   Subscribe for unlimited access to all our articles, 70% fewer ads, daily puzzles and our desktop & mobile app. Your first month free . Cancel anytime.     Find out more     Gift access   Give someone a subscription for a year's unlimited access to all our articles, 70% fewer ads, daily puzzles and our desktop and mobile app. From just £94.90 for 12 months.    Find out more

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