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The Writing is on the Wall – The Good Friday Agreement is a Busted Flush

Garrett Byrne writes on the political situation in Northern Ireland, discussing the Good Friday Agreement and last weeks elections.

Let’s make it work

By Connor Daly, contributor After the international plaudits and local prosperity that followed the 1998 peace agreement, division, tension and stalemate have typified the political set-up at Stormont, as manifested in the failure of last year’s inter-party talks with US diplomat Richard Haass, deadlock over welfare reform and more recently the requested Treasury bail-out. EveryContinue reading “Let’s make it work”