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.





