Irish peacemaker keeps a famous promise and brings his son back to Ireland this week

The Northern Ireland Peace Process wasn't confined to Ulster. The Good Friday Agreement was an agreement between the Government of Ireland and the United Kingdom. The "North" and "Northern Ireland" aren't synonymous. Northern Ireland isn't a country, it's a neo-provincial statelet. If Senator Mitchell favours the people of Northern Ireland, does that mean he disfavours those of us in Munster/Southern Ireland - Leinster/Eastern Ireland - and/or - Connacht/Western Ireland? Or am I proving David Irvine wrong - i.e. that Leinster/Eastern Ireland men also travel a 100 miles to be offended. If so, we may have something in common after all, if only a persecution complex. Republicans would argue that as long as there is a Northern Ireland in anything other than geographical terms, that democracy in the context is oxymoronic. Still, his task was enormous, and I do respect him profoundly.

BytheBay, you're a miserable, lonely pessimist and always will be.

Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God... And so on ~

bythebay the bigot lives in fear that one day he will have an Irish passport.His Norn Areland will disappear into the pages of history.

A lovely story and not surprising from a man of George Mitchell's standing. He is a decent man who did his best for the people of Northern Ireland just like he has done over the years for us in the state of Maine and for our country. And KilkennyCats ... of course he's a Red Sox fan. Most of us in Maine are.:) Bythebay - just curious - would you rather have had George Mitchell stay at home and done nothing? Sounds like it.

Maybe Mr Mitchell needs to read up on law a bit more...........If he read up on law he would understand how traitorous Irish Politicians have falsified the rule books of Ireland to allow opinions and nothing in law could be valid ever since.

Mitchell didn't bring his son to Ireland. He brought his son to Northern Ireland, a different country.

dickmac, just after Mitchell and his Northern Ireland Peace Treaty, the IRA bombed Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. 29 innocent people both Catholic and Protestant blown to smithereens while out shopping on a Saturday afternoon. And they continue their murders to today including a young Catholic PSNI Officer murdered for no reason but to discourage other Catholics from joining the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

ArmaghCity, not where you do pretending to be part of Ireland when you're not and never will be.

this little story will be, I suspect, one that is remembered and retold for decades; maybe centuries.

ByTheBay ... Where do you live, bigot?

KilkennyCats, Mitchell had nothing to do with Ireland except assure Ireland had to give up all claims to Northern Ireland. He didn't come to Ireland and of course wasn't invited.

The people in the North deserve peace ! After these many years we pray that all will live under a better life.

George Mitchell did a fantastic job in Northern Ireland, thanks in no small part to the help of controversial figures such as Gerry Adams and the Rev. Dr. Ian Paisley. The timing was right. Sadly, Mr. Mitchell did not meet the same success in the Middle East because the will for peace was not there, not his fault at all. But the Irish people, Catholic and Protestant, deserve praise.

Northern Ireland is not Ireland. Mr. Mitchell went to Northern Ireland, not Ireland. The Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, which he crafted, assured Ireland sould give up all rights to Northern Ireland. Mitchell was just mopping up the catastrophic results of 30 years of IRA terrorism.