NI agreement being wrecked

Let us hope the prophets of doom are wrong and the storm clouds are not gathering across the North but there is little to suggest that everything is rosy in the garden and the Good Friday Agreement is safe in the custody of the DUP and Sinn Féin, two parties that have the capacity to either make it work but apparently are more interested in wrecking it.

Unfortunately, since these parties moved into key positions everything has been done to further their own political agenda with little to do with enshrining the principles contained in that agreement which was endorsed by the major democracies across the world on the understanding that the key elements in it would be honoured.

Building new relationships between North and South was underlined time and time again in the GFA and obvious even to those with the most elementary understanding of the need to address the errors of the past. So, too, was the need to create the broadest spectrum of consultation and input to ensure decisions taken within the North are the correct ones and most likely to influence the kind of changes envisaged in that Good Friday Agreement.