Tony Blair and Bill Clinton have been invited to an event in the North marking 10 years since the Good Friday Agreement, it was revealed today.

The lasting legacy of the North’s peace process could be to point a way forward for other conflict zones around the world, a leading US statesman claimed today.

The US politician who helped negotiate the Good Friday Agreement urged all parties in the North today to move forward following the IRA decommissioning.

The vast majority of people in Northern Ireland want the peace process to succeed, former talks chairman Senator George Mitchell insisted today.

Former Northern Ireland talks chairman Senator George Mitchell is to meet politicians in the North for high-level talks on the peace process.

The people of Northern Ireland must be ‘‘patient, steady and forward looking’’ at a time of great strain on the peace process, the US politician who brokered the Good Friday Agreement claimed today.

Hard-line Democratic Unionists were tonight preparing for new Northern Ireland Assembly elections after predicting that David Trimble’s bid to be restored as First Minister is doomed.

The Northern Ireland peace process will succeed, the US politician who brokered the Good Friday Agreement insisted today.

Former American President Bill Clinton was ending his visit to the Irish Republic tonight with a gala event set to raise more than £700,000 for Northern Ireland’s Reconciliation Fund.

Former US president Bill Clinton, in Dublin for two days of engagements and private meetings, said today he hoped he would have a continuing role in the Northern Ireland peace process.