Ahead of her 90th birthday, the great-grandmother looked back on the 1990s when she was a senior member of the SDLP negotiating team alongside leader John Hume and his deputy Seamus Mallon.

Giselle, you are not a girl’s girl. You might be from another era, when “love at first sight” means you saw each other literally once, but all that mess could’ve been avoided if you’d ...