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10 unusual facts about Good Friday Agreement


Bernadette Sands McKevitt

Her husband, Michael McKevitt, was the Quartermaster General of the IRA and later a founding member of an anti-Good Friday Agreement splinter group styled by the media as the 'Real Irish Republican Army'.

Darron Gibson

Due to the constitutional position of Northern Ireland, following the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, citizenship of the Republic of Ireland is the undisputed birthright of every person born on the island of Ireland if they so wish.

Dessie O'Hare

In 2000 O'Hare requested a judicial review, stating that he should have been released under the terms of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

Food Safety Promotion Board

It is one of the six originally planned cross-border (all Ireland) bodies set up following the Good Friday Agreement.

Good Friday Agreement

The British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference was agreed to replace the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Council and the Intergovernmental Conference created under the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement.

Harri Holkeri

He also played a constructive role in securing the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland.

Joseph MacManus

His father was also involved in the negotiations leading to the Good Friday Agreement.

Lawrence Butler

In this position he was important in the development of the Good Friday Agreement in the Northern Ireland peace process.

Liam Quinn

Quinn served 11 years before he was released in April 1999, when aged 51, along with the rest of the Balcombe Street gang, under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.

Principle of consent

Principle of consent is a term used in the context of the Northern Ireland peace process and one of the key points of the Good Friday Agreement.


Jack McKee

At an anti-Good Friday Agreement protest in Antrim on April 1998 McKee shared a platform with then fellow DUP member Sammy Wilson and Kenneth Peeples, a described leader of the Orange Volunteers and Protestant fundamentalist, who burned a copy of the agreement.

Quentin Thomas

He led the team supporting Ministers in the 1996-98 roundtable talks, chaired by United States Senator George Mitchell, which culminated in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

Seamus Mallon

Following the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 Mallon became Deputy First Minister in the Assembly, serving alongside Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble.