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Mick Clifford: Quiet normality is the loudest tribute to George Mitchell and the Good Friday Agreement 

'Without John Hume, there would not have been a peace process,' said George Mitchell. 'Without David Trimble, there would not have been a peace agreement'
Mick Clifford: Quiet normality is the loudest tribute to George Mitchell and the Good Friday Agreement 

George Mitchell with the newly-unveiled bust of him at Queen's University, Belfast, on Monday. Picture: Cian O'Regan

There were no helicopters hovering over Queen's University on Monday, no knots of British soldiers on the streets around the campus, and no police cradling machine guns. 

There were no protests, but there were a couple of organisations selling God in one guise or another. 

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