Irish Examiner view: Too close to a dangerous unravelling of Good Friday Agreement

1998 deal has worked and must be sustained — or we risk political and social chaos

Nobody wants a return to the bad old days. File picture: PA 

It is a measure of the success of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (GFA) that the North and its interminable conflicts have moved from the everyday, blood-spattered consciousness, and occasional presence, in the lives of nearly everyone on this island to some sort of remote conundrum that may or may not be resolved in the fullness of time.

By its very success, the GFA has marginalised that unsettled, simmering question.