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Tourists visit the graffiti-covered “peace walls” that still separate some nationalist and unionist neighborhoods in west Belfast, Northern Ireland, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. It has been 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement largely a conflict in Northern Ireland that left 3,600 people dead. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

Troubles shadow lingers as N Ireland marks 25 years of peace

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald, center, is greeted by well wishers during a walkabout in central Dublin during a walkabout in central Dublin, whilst on the General Election campaign trail on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. Ireland goes to the polls for a general election on Feb. 8. (Brian Lawless/PA via AP)

Ireland’s two-party system shaken by Sinn Fein surge

By JILL LAWLESS and NICOLAE DUMITRACHE - Associated Press

NIreland police say IRA dissidents planned Brexit truck bomb

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 file photo showing a Loyalist mural painted on a wall in east Belfast, Northern Ireland. Rory Finnis was only 21 years old when he was killed in 1991 by the Irish Republican Army. Accused of “informing” the Northern Ireland government of the paramilitary group’s activities, the boy from Londonderry was shot in the head. His hands had been tied behind his back and his eyes taped closed. Details of Finnis’ death, along with many others, have been revealed in archives newly opened by the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland. The files concern the violent period known as “The Troubles”, which centred on whether Northern Ireland would be part of the United Kingdom, as it is today, or join the Republic of Ireland. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File)

Archives reveal details of alleged informers killed by IRA

By NATASHA LIVINGSTONE - Associated Press

In this photo dated Monday Oct. 14, 2019 a man walks past an Irish Republican mural depicting scenes of the Battle of the Bogside area of Derry in August 1969. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

Brexit ignites fears of renewed violence in Northern Ireland

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

Tony-nominated ‘Ferryman’ tackles N. Ireland Troubles

By JOHN CARUCCI - Associated Press

A woman reacts as she stops to pay her respects at the scene Saturday April 20, 2019, in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, where 29-year old journalist Lyra McKee was fatally shot. Police in Northern Ireland on Saturday arrested two teenagers in connection with the fatal shooting of investigative journalist Lyra McKee was shot and killed during rioting Thursday night. (Brian Lawless/PA via AP)

The Latest: Woman arrested in killing of N Ireland reporter

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In this undated family photo made available Friday April 19, 2019, issued by Northern Ireland Police, showing journalist Lyra McKee who was shot and killed when guns were fired during clashes with police Thursday night April 18, 2019, in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Police are investigating the shooting death of 29-year-old McKee, during street violence Thursday night.(Family photo/PSNI via AP)

Police: ‘New breed’ of terrorists in Northern Ireland

By GREGORY KATZ and NAOMI KOPPEL - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, West Ham's Declan Rice during the English Premier League soccer match against Fulham at the London Stadium in London. A day before possibly making his England debut, Declan Rice has apologised for an old social-media post in which he appeared to support the IRA, the Irish republican paramilitary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, FILE)

After Ireland-England switch, Rice apologizes for IRA tweets

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

IRA suspect going on trial in Germany for barracks attack

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FILE - This is a Monday, Jan. 10, 2005, file photo of Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness as he speaks to the media outside his party offices in west Belfast, Northern Ireland. McGuinness, an IRA and Sinn Fein leader who became a minister of peacetime Northern Ireland, has died, according to UK media Tuesday, March 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File)

The Latest: McGuinness’ coffin carried through streets

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FILE - In this July 1984 file photo Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein politician and a former Brigade Commander of the IRA poses for a photo in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. McGuinness, the Irish Republican Army commander who led his underground, paramilitary movement toward reconciliation with Britain, and was Northern Ireland's deputy first minister for a decade in a power-sharing government, has died, his Sinn Fein party announced Tuesday, March 21, 2017, on Twitter. He was 66. (AP Photo/Peter Kemp)

Ireland’s McGuinness trod unlikely path from war to peace

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK - Associated Press

FILE - This is a Sunday, Feb. 1, 1998 file photo of Martin McGuinness, the Sinn Fein Chief Negotiator, left, and Sinn Fein's president Gerry Adams as they participate in the Bloody Sunday anniversary march in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. McGuinness, an IRA and Sinn Fein leader who became a minister of peacetime Northern Ireland, has died, according to UK media Tuesday, March 21, 2017 . (AP Photo/Paul McErlane, File)

Martin McGuinness, IRA leader turned peacemaker, dies at 66

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK - Associated Press

Belfast police to sue for all Boston College tapes

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday Jan. 12, 2012 file photo, Helen McKendry holds a family photograph showing her mother Jean McConcille, at home in Killyleagh, Northern Ireland. Police in Northern Ireland arrested Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams on Wednesday over his alleged involvement in the Irish Republican Army's 1972 abduction, killing and secret burial of a Belfast widow. Adams, 65, confirmed his own arrest in a prepared statement and described it as a voluntary, prearranged interview. Police long had been expected to question Adams about the killing of Jean McConville, a 38-year-old mother of 10 whom the IRA killed with a single gunshot to the head as an alleged spy. According to all authoritative histories of the Sinn Fein-IRA movement, Adams served as an IRA commander for decades, but he has always denied holding any position in the outlawed group. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, file)

Correction: Northern Ireland-Adams Arrested story

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK - Associated Press

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams gets a warm welcome from a woman on the Andersonstown road in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, Monday, May 5, 2014. A police evidence file documenting Gerry Adams' Irish Republican Army career has been delivered to British state prosecutors in Belfast, but experts say the chances of the Sinn Fein leader being charged are slim on legal, political and particularly national-security grounds. Adams, 65, walked free Sunday after five days of police interrogation and declared his innocence in the unsolved 1972 abduction, slaying and secret burial of a Belfast mother of 10, Jean McConville. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

Northern Ireland police chief defends Adams arrest

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK - Associated Press

Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams speaks to the media in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sunday May 4, 2014. Adams was released without charge Sunday after five days of police questioning over his alleged involvement in a decades-old Irish Republican Army killing, an event that has driven a dangerous wedge into Northern Ireland's unity government. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

Analysis: Belfast IRA charge on Adams unlikely

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, file photo, Helen McKendry holds a family photo with her mother, Jean McConville, at home in Killyleagh, Northern Ireland. Police in Northern Ireland arrested Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams on Wednesday, April 30, 2014, over his alleged involvement in the Irish Republican Army's 1972 abduction, killing and secret burial of McConville. On Friday, May 2, the senior Sinn Fein politician in Northern Ireland's unity government demanded Adams' immediate release, as police sought to extend his interrogation over McConville's murder. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File)

Belfast Police: Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams to be freed, charges unlikely

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Michael McConville, the son of Jean McConville who was murdered by the IRA, speaks to the media at the Wave Trauma centre in Belfast, Thursday, May, 1, 2014. Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams is still being questioned by police at Antrim police station after being arrested late Wednesday in connection with the murder of Jean McConville. (AP Photo)

Sinn Fein chief detained 3rd day over IRA killing

By Shawn Pogatchnik - Associated Press