Good morning. Welcome, Naxios today. It's Thursday, April 13th. I'm Naila Boudou.

Today on the show, understanding the latest on inflation, plus Twitter versus public media.

But first, President Biden in Ireland. That's today's one big thing.

President Biden is visiting Ireland this week to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement,

which brought peace to Northern Ireland and ended most violence between Catholics and Protestants after decades.

Here to shed some light on this milestone is Axios' Senior World Reporter Dave Lawler. Hi, Dave.

Hi, Naila.

Dave, can you remind us what role the US played in the Good Friday Agreement?

Sure. So the US under Bill Clinton was kind of a guarantor of this agreement, which was struck between the Republicans, the Nationalists on one side, mainly Catholics in Northern Ireland,

and the mostly Protestant unionists who feel much more attachment to the UK than to the Republic of Ireland.

And so President Clinton at the time played a role in helping to get these sides together and helping to make a deal happen.

Of course, the governments of the UK and Ireland were also involved. And President Biden was a senior senator at the time and did play a role in the negotiations as well.

So this is something that's quite close to his heart.

So where's Ireland now 25 years afterwards?

Northern Ireland is, as you mentioned, much more peaceful than it was 25 years ago.

The troubles, as they were called, are largely over.

But Brexit has kind of reawakened some of these tensions between unionists and Republicans because Northern Ireland, part of the UK, left the European Union.

The Republic of Ireland is now still in the European Union.

So you basically had to decide whether to put a trade border on the island of Ireland between Northern Ireland and the Republic, which would outrage the Republicans who see themselves as part of a unified Ireland.

Or you had to put it in the Irish Sea between Northern Ireland and the UK, which would outrage the unionists who view themselves really as part of the United Kingdom.

So that's kind of the big political issue that Biden was faced with when he went to Northern Ireland.

But he knew he couldn't push too hard in part because he's quite unpopular with unionists in Northern Ireland.

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