Mitchell urges North to let traditions flourish

THE man who helped broker the Good Friday Agreement has urged the people of the North to give each other's traditions space and time to “flourish side by side”.

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Speaking in Belfast, former US Senator George Mitchell, 91, said never take peace for granted.

In his speech, Passing The Torch, he added peace did not seem possible in 1968, 1974, 1981, or even in 1998 when just four months after the agreement, a dissident republican bomb in Omagh killed 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins.