On the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, President Biden is headed to Northern Ireland, where an uneasy peace prevails.
BELFAST—In mid-February, Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell finished coaching his son’s soccer team and was putting soccer balls into the trunk of his car in Omagh, Northern Ireland, when two masked gunmenBritish authorities suspect that pro-Irish republicans targeted Mr. Caldwell, who remains hospitalized. If so, he would be the most senior police officer picked out by such groups since the
was signed 25 years ago, ending the three-decade-long civil conflict known as the Troubles that killed about 3,700 people, injured tens of thousands more and traumatized a generation.celebrate the deal’s anniversary along with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. Mr. Biden, whose ancestors were Irish, will hail the deal that brought an uneasy peace between a mostly Protestant community that sees itself as British and wants to remain part of the U.K., and a mostly Catholic community that endured decades of discrimination and which views itself as Irish and aspires to see a united Ireland.
Within hours of Mr. Caldwell’s shooting, the leaders of the province’s five main political parties—which include pro-British unionist parties and pro-Irish nationalist ones—condemned the attack.
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