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THE NORTHERN Ireland peace process had “united Irish mainstream opinion with the diaspora”, Taoiseach Brian Cowen said in Dublin last night.

Launching An Irish Voice,the autobiography of Irish-American publisher Niall O’Dowd, the Taoiseach said the book was a valuable contribution to the history of the peace process as well as the Irish emigrant experience.