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We were pilloried for meeting Sinn Fein — but peace was the result
25 years after the Good Friday Agreement, KEN LIVINGSTONE writes about his unique, long-running role in the peace process that saw him vilified, then eventually vindicated — and salutes a future united Ireland
THE RIGHT CALL: Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams with Ken Livingstone and Labour councillors at County Hall, London on July 28 1983
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BACK in March this year, I met up in Camden Town with Francie Molloy. Today Molloy is the Sinn Fein MP for Mid Ulster, but when I first met him he was a councillor in Dungannon, Northern Ireland. Since the mid-1980s, Molloy has been a regular visitor to London and it was good to have a catch-up after so long.
During the course of our conversation, Molloy suggested that the initial conversations between Sinn Fein and the left of the Labour Party in the early 1980s could be considered the beginning of the Irish peace process.
Now, I will leave it to historians to judge that one. But I can say that I am proud of the role that I did play, alongside others on the British left, to encourage dialogue and peace between our two islands. Twenty-five years since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement it is evident that talking was the right thing to do.
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