We knew that if we were to mess up, that it was back to people dying again.

We were in a very, very dark, dark place and we got out of that.

I can't think really of another major peace process that's been brought to a clear fruition.

This anniversary shouldn't be a victory lap. We need to look forward.

I'm David Blevins, Sky Senior Ireland correspondent, and with political journalist Eva Moore.

Hi David. This is the Sky News

Daily. We're on the Stormont Estate in East Belfast in front of us the really grand and imposing

Parliament building which really was built to establish and represent unionist domination of this place for a very long time.

The six pillars, for example at the front represent the six counties of Northern Ireland.

Halfway up the avenue, we've got a statue of Lord Carson, the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.

And even the road that leads up to Parliament buildings

exactly one mile long from the gate to the front door is called Prince of Wales Way. So everything

about this place was unionist and yet it was here that they struck the most historic compromise

on the 10th of April 1998. Every Prime Minister from Ted Heath had tried to find a way

to end the violence in Northern Ireland. But it was Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart, Taoiseach

Bertie Ahern, who finally did that, bringing the parties together, unionist, nationalist, loyalist,

Republican to the same table for the first

time to broker an agreement that would change the course of history here. And now 25 years later,

what's the legacy of that agreement? Did it really change Northern Ireland?

So Eva, we're here at Stormont. What does this place mean to you?

Stormont, I suppose, is the heart to all of it in Northern Ireland.

And, you know, even though we know it is a very kind of fractured place it is, you know,

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