GIVEN their innate decency, it’s not so ironic that the SDLP, Alliance, David Trimble’s Official Unionists and David Ervine’s Progressives (with links to loyalism) are acting in the best tradition of Michael Collins in their acceptance of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA), mirroring the Anglo-Irish Treaty signed by the Clonakilty man and formally ratified by Dáil Éireann on December 6, 1921.