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IPSOS/MORI poll on Good Friday Agreement: Scepticism on Stormont’s ‘progress’ on sectarianism

Mick Fealty on May 23, 2013, 2:20 pm

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Some interesting polling figures on Nolan last night regarding the long term effects of the Good Friday Agreement. Stand out difference is that whilst 78% of nationalists would still vote Yes, 41% of unionists would. There’s no way of really measuring that against the original poll, but Wesley Johnston estimates that 60% unionists voted Yes whilst Nationalists came in at 94% (which I think is a tad optimistic). But the proportions of those who would vote NO is also down, …

GFA Referendum +15: Remembering ‘the People’ and Renewing Fundamentals

Mick Fealty on May 22, 2013, 11:06 am

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By Colin Harvey Dates matter on this island. None more than 22nd May 1998. Our shared and collective act of self-determination pointed to a constitutional future where we now rely only on each other. A future where persuasion counts; and people matter more than flags and territory. Readers of Slugger will need no reminding of the Derry person who stood for that version of Irish unity, and also know that others continue to carry this message forward now. On a …

Good Friday Agreement at 15: The dour fatalism of our political Calvinists…

Mick Fealty on March 29, 2013, 5:11 pm

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Maybe it’s because it took place in the last Millenium that our memories of that fateful day seem so quickly dated and fading so quickly. The freshest piece writing from that time is Danny Morrison’s great piece of gonzo journalism: Then, at 7.10 am Mitchell McLaughlin arrives to read out a short statement but not to answer questions. In confident tones he declares that Sinn Fein has, during negotiations, clawed back a considerable amount of ground which it believed had …