Unionists must be confronted on pact

FOLLOWING the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, the participants in the multi-party negotiations dedicated themselves to the “achievement of reconciliation, tolerance, partnership, equality, mutual respect and the vindication of the human rights of all”.

Nationalists were told that the level playing field that would emerge after seven decades of political exclusion would be a vista where nobody could hide politically.

Also, the political majoritarianism indulged in by unionism would be replaced by the politics of consent.