The Good Friday Agreement brought the framework for peace, but it hasn’t been an easy ride. Political Correspondent Fiachra Ó Cionnaith looks back on the key moments of the first 20 years of the peace process.

Considered by many the cornerstone of peace and stability on the island of Ireland, the Good Friday Agreement and the path to it was fraught with hurdles and political landmines, writes Juno McEnroe.

Jeremy Paxman has signed up to host his first new BBC show since stepping down as Newsnight anchor – a documentary marking the 50th anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill’s state funeral.

Controversial TD Luke 'Ming' Flanagan has suggested some of his Dáil colleagues may have taken drugs, after admitting he has previously dabbled with Class A narcotics.

Christopher Eccleston and Julie Walters scooped the main acting awards as British TV productions won five International Emmys today, including two for the BBC crime series 'Accused'.

Julie Walters is desperate to star in 'Coronation Street'.

Ant and Dec and 'Britain’s Got Talent' finally landed their first Bafta – while Simon Cowell was also presented with a special award.

Julie Walters, John Hurt and Helena Bonham Carter will battle it out at the TV Baftas today after being nominated for their portrayals of real-life people.

'Britain’s Got Talent' has received its first ever nomination for a Bafta television award.

Channel 4’s biopic of late politician Mo Mowlam was the highest rated drama for the station for more than eight years, figures showed today.

Actress Julie Walters has finished playing former Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam in the drama 'Mo'.

Filming has started in Belfast of 'Mo', a political drama based on the life of Mo Mowlam, the former Northern Ireland Secretary of State and her time in the North.

Dan Buckley asks whether Ryan Tubridy can rekindle that Gaybo attraction.

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will be presented with an award to mark his contribution to the peace process at a gala dinner tonight.

The former head of Garda intelligence told a court today that he would have arrested former IRA leader Brendan 'Bik' Mc Farlanefor the kidnap of supermarket executive Don Tidey if had come face to face with him.

Maze prison escapee Brendan McFarlane told gardaí that he was "prepared for the big one" when he was questioned about the kidnapping of former supermarket executive Don Tidey, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

Maze prison escapee Brendan McFarlane was arrested just hours before the Northern Ireland Secretary of State Mo Mowlam was due to sign his final papers releasing him from parole, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

THE Taoiseach said he still holds aspirations for a united Ireland, 10 years on from the signing of the historic Good Friday agreement.

IF recent events showed a week can be a long time in politics, then a decade can be an eternity.

All sides involved in the creation of the Good Friday Agreement should feel proud of it, Bertie Ahern said tonight.

Politicians in the North have more work to do if they are to deliver full devolution to their constituents, Northern Secretary Shaun Woodward claimed today.

The British government's former head of press relations, Alastair Campbell, said in his diaries that Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness were tough negotiators during the peace process.

Final rehearsals wrapped up today ahead of the Irish premiere of a controversial play about terrorists behind infamous atrocities.

HOPES of a power-sharing deal in the North rose dramatically last night as Ian Paisley appeared unusually upbeat over a devolution breakthrough.

DRAWN into militant loyalism from an early age, Michael Stone, 50, joined the infamous loyalist Tartan Gang at the age of 13 and by the age of 16 he had already been held in Belfast’s Crumlin Road jail for possession of firearms and membership of the Ulster Defence Association.

A leading US senator today urged the Democratic Unionists to end their opposition to sharing political power with Sinn Féin.

Nearly €13m has been spent on the latest police inquiry into Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane’s murder, it was revealed tonight.

Mo Mowlam, Gerry Adams, a Brazilian nun and a millionaire builder have been nominated by the public for the 2005 Tipperary Peace Prize, it emerged today.

A children’s park built in the Stormont Estate at the suggestion of Mo Mowlam is to be named in her memory, it was revealed today.

Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain was tonight accused of being overtly pro-nationalist.

TERRORISTS brought grief to London, nature’s forces terrorised New Orleans, while Eddie Hobbs threw the Government into panic over Rip Off Ireland.

Victoria Ward, New York

Dan McGinn

Loved by some, disparaged by others: few can dispute Mo Mowlam had a massive impact on the North, writes Dan McGinn

Nationalist and unionist politicians have been paying tribute to former Northern Secretary Mo Mowlam, who died this morning from injuries sustained in a fall earlier this month.

Mo Mowlam was a person and a politician whom the Irish people held in great esteem, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said today.

Tony Blair paid tribute to Mo Mowlam today as “one of the most remarkable and colourful personalities” ever to enter British politics.

When Mo Mowlam became Northern Ireland Secretary, she may well have had her hero Winston Churchill in mind – and his declaration that history would be kind to him because he intended to write it.

Former Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam died today in a hospice, a family spokesman said.

Former Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam has died, a family spokesman said today.

Friends of Mo Mowlam have revealed that the former Northern Secretary has suffered another deterioration in her health at a hospice in Canterbury.

Former Northern Ireland secretary Mo Mowlam has been transferred from a hospital in London to a hospice closer to her family.

FORMER Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam was yesterday fighting for her life in hospital.