Good Friday Agreement archives: Agreement will be studied carefully by IRA

One republican who played a leading role in the 25-year Provisional campaign, said it was inevitable republicans would turn their guns on each other if the Árd Fheis endorsed the Stormont deal.

The Good Friday Agreement, signed 25 years ago this month, effectively brought an end to more than three decades of violence that had racked the country. In a series of articles, the Irish Examiner is looking back at how the famous peace agreement was reported. In April 1998, Joe Oliver filed this report.

THE peace agreement will be studied carefully against its potential to move towards the primary objective of a united Ireland, the IRA said.