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The man who connected Bill Clinton and Gerry Adams: Politics Weekly America podcast

The man who connected Bill Clinton and Gerry Adams: Politics Weekly America podcast

Politics Weekly America vor 3 Jahren

As the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday agreement approaches, Jonathan Freedland speaks to Niall O’Dowd about the years of secret meetings to involve the US in the peace process in Northern Ireland.

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Next week, Joe Biden and Bill Clinton will arrive in Northern
Ireland to join commemorations of the 25th anniversary of the Good
Friday agreement. Clinton is now celebrated as one of the key
players behind the agreement, but he didn’t do it alone. It took
years of background efforts – of secret meetings, discreet lobbying
and high-risk shadow diplomacy, by people whose names we’ve never
known – to convince the United States to get involved. This week,
Jonathan Freedland speaks to one of those people, Niall O’Dowd, who
tells the extraordinary story of how he built a secret channel
between Clinton and the Irish republican movement