A major intervention from the UK prime minister.

Mark McFadden reports for UTV Live on a famous speech during the referendum campaign. As part of the campaign to vote in favour of the Good Friday Agreement, Tony Blair visits the University of Ulster campus at Coleraine and makes a memorable contribution to iconography of an historic series of events.

The prime minister unveils a series of pledges to those in the Unionist community thinking of voting No, and presents them on a large board in his own handwriting. These pledges contain his personal assurance that there will never be a change to Northern Ireland's position in the United Kingdom without the consent of the majority of its people.

Among other pledges, there are also assurances that anyone endorsing violence will be excluded from the new institutions and that paramilitary prisoners will remain in jail until violence is given up for good. Blair pays tribute to the leadership of David Trimble and urges voters to grasp the opportunity before them, saying, "I don't know if the chance will come again, this generation, if we turn our back on it now."" Blair's attempt to win over those wavering bears some instant results. Present at the event is David McNarry of the Orange Order, who announces that he is convinced by Blair's pledge and that he will back the Agreement.

Starting in 1993, UTV Live took over as Ulster Television's local news series, running a flagship programme each evening, with other bulletins throughout the day. In the 1990s it captured the unfolding story of the push towards a peace settlement in Northern Ireland, through all its twist and turns, which ended with the historic Good Friday Agreement in 1998.