GFA

THE road back to a Stormont Assembly and Executive is now very clearly set out, and it is widely expected that we will see a devolved Government in place before too long.

The British government has been accused "backsliding" on the Good Friday Agreement after it emerged that the head of a new legacy investigation unit must be a British citizen.

THE focus of the world turned to Northern Ireland last month as Presidents, Prime Ministers, Taoiseachs, Senators, and Ambassadors, both past and present, joined us to mark 25 years of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.

The 1998 GFA referendum was, I think, the most important vote in my lifetime.

There’s one thing most people won’t remember about the signing of the Good Friday Agreement…and that’s how cold it was the night before.

A PRESSURE group has said a ‘yes’ result in any future border poll will need the consent of the British parliament.

OCCASIONALLY politicians when putting a policy reversal on the record, try to do so when it might not attract much attention. Mary Lou McDonald’s recent “apology” for the death of Lord Mountbatten, seems a case in point.

AS one of the handful of Ulster Unionist Party negotiators responsible for the 1998 Belfast Agreement, I share in the general public’s sense of disappointment and feel not a little anger over the chronic failure of the two main parties to work and behave responsibly.

IN his recent statement, Lord Morrow, chairman of the DUP, claimed that compared to the 1974 Workers Council Strike and the 1985 loyalist protests against the Anglo-Irish Agreement, the recent unionist protests were of “equal seriousness”. He went on to claim that the authorities have continued to “show total and absolute capitulation to the demands of militant republicanism”.