“We had seven hundred bad days,” Senator George Mitchell, the US’s special envoy to Northern Ireland said, “and then one good day.” Next April, the Good Friday Agreement will mark its 25th anniversary, the anniversary of that good day. David Donoghue was one of the chief negotiators for the Irish government at that time and his book One Good Day tells the story of the road to the Good Friday Agreement. It is a story of great breakthroughs and great sacrifices by men like David Trimble and John Hume but it is also a story of those personalities and how…

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