Good Friday Agreement - Still trying to overcome our toxic past

“If there was a united Ireland I’d have to leave,” thus spoke DUP leader Arlene Foster in Patrick Kielty’s My Dad, the Peace Deal and Me on BBC One on Wednesday night.

Good Friday Agreement - Still trying to overcome our toxic past

“If there was a united Ireland I’d have to leave,” thus spoke DUP leader Arlene Foster in Patrick Kielty’s My Dad, the Peace Deal and Me on BBC One on Wednesday night.

What a terribly sad admission. What a revealing and challenging one too. It suggests that next Tuesday’s 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement marks a milestone that ended the violence but has not brought the fundamental change its architects, or the island-wide majority who endorsed it, hoped for.

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