monica mcwilliams represented them.onica mcwilliams represented the northern ireland women's coalition dan and continues to play a significant role in post— conflict in northern ireland is now. —— guest. is there much to celebrate, that continues to hang over northern —— northern ireland today. —— coalition and. monica mcwilliams, welcome to hardtalk thank you. kiwi said on the eve of this historic 20th anniversary of the signing of the so—called good friday agreement. —— here we sit on the year. that appeal to you in northern ireland today that it is a very different place rom the northern island of 20 yea rs place rom the northern island of 20 years ago. “— place rom the northern island of 20 years ago. —— different place from the northern ireland of 20 years ago? my own friend was murdered in 1974 as a university student. —— northern. those were hard days. now my children have a completely different life than the life i lead. i lived 30 years through the troubles for about 14. i signed the agreement when i was 44. so

monica mcwilliams, thank you very much for being on hardtalk. thank you very much.? but things look likely to change as we move through this week. for some warmer weather. force gusts of winds. that's 77 fahrenheit. into the low 20s. so something to look forward to. to our working week. of the day. cloudy skies first thing. to be along the south coast, highs of ii to 15 degrees. now the winds will strengthen and the rain arrives from the west. north—west england and scotland. will fizzle out quite considerably. a band of cloud and drizzle by then. so temperatures will peak perhaps at around 14 degrees. celsius. across the near continent with this high pressure building. in the story for april. fringes of scotland, maybe a little more cloud. starting to build, 19 to 20 degrees the high on wednesday. -- 23. temperatures as high as 25 degrees, 77 fahrenheit. back on the 29th of august last year. 00:28:43,414 --> 1073741526:09:54,918 this 1073741526:09:54,918 --> 2147483051:51:06,422 is 2147483051:51:06,422 --> 3221224577:32:17,926 the 3221224577:32:17,926 --> 429496610

monica mcwilliams, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. we sit on the eve of this historic 20th anniversary of the signing of the so—called good friday agreement. does it feel to you living in northern ireland today that it is a very different place from the northern ireland of 20 years ago? it isa it is a completely different place. i used to run from bombs and standard generals. —— and stand at funerals. my own friend was murdered in 1974 as a university student. those were hard days. now my children have a completely different life than the life i led. i lived 30 years through the troubles from about 14. i signed the agreement when i was 1m. so i say to this generation this is your peace: "we tried to make it, you need to build it." interesting that you say your children live in this different environment. i know northern ireland, and was there now long ago. and it still strikes me as a deeply come a deeply segregated society. it is indeed. we have a lot of work to do. it is unfinished business. and we may be peace agreement, we said th