Good Friday Agreement
About the Good Friday Agreement
Ended the Troubles after 30 years and 3,500 deaths. Power sharing executive, cross border institutions, principle of consent, NI stays British until majority votes otherwise, both states dropped territorial claims, prisoners released, paramilitaries decommissioned. Clinton mediation, Mitchell chairmanship, Trimble and Hume Nobel Peace Prize. It survived crises, St Andrews, the cash for ash collapse, and Brexit border tensions, the peace holds.
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