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Joyce Fegan: How would Good Friday Agreement's architects have navigated Twitter?

Twenty five years on, one can only wonder how the Good Friday Agreement would have worked out in today’s world of cyber arguments, where a flash-in-the-pan comment can rupture relations in an instant and further entrench opposing views
Joyce Fegan: How would Good Friday Agreement's architects have navigated Twitter?

Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern sign the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, 1998. Picture: Dan Chung/PA Wire

"We take this occasion to thank each of you for your courtesy. It has been a pleasure to work with you."

These were the parting words printed on the cover of the Good Friday Agreement, as signed on April 10, 1998. 

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