Adams right about Thatcher and the North

Billy McElligott (Letters, Apr 13) says Gerry Adams was selective in stating that Margaret Thatcher had prolonged the Irish conflict.

Adams was right — the Anglo-Irish Agreement was about exclusion, the Good Friday Agreement was about inclusion — and delivered peace.

Thatcher later said she signed the AIA to elicit security co-operation from Dublin, while Garret FitzGerald signed it to ward off the electoral growth of SF in the North.