Failure to achieve reconciliation the ‘great miss’ of peace process – Tánaiste

Tanaiste Micheal Martin speaking to the media on the situation in the Middle East during the officially opening of the Joe and Helen O’Toole Community Nursing Unit in Tuam, Co Galway. Picture date: Monday October 16, 2023.

An ongoing failure to advance reconciliation across the island of Ireland is the “great miss” of the peace process, Ireland’s deputy premier has said.

Micheál Martin said many communities were as far apart in 2023 as they were in 1998, when the landmark Good Friday Agreement was struck to largely end the violence of the Troubles.