Indifference to the North among young people at odds with support for Sinn Féin 

We must educate a new and dangerously ignorant generation on the crucial nature of the Good Friday Agreement, writes Emma deSouza

 Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern signing the Good Friday Agreement.

Half of young people in the Republic do not understand Northern Ireland’s conflict, nor do they want to. One in four say they do not know if they support the Good Friday Agreement — these worrying statistics come courtesy of a recent Sunday Times/Behaviour and Attitudes poll. 

The apathy and indifference of the ceasefire generation raises a question mark over the future of the globally revered Agreement and poses a challenge for the educators and leaders of today.