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The prime minister at the time, Tony Blair, and then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern sign the Good Friday AgreementDo you remember where you were when the Good Friday Agreement was signed? If not, you're probably under 40.
The former foreign secretary Dominic Raab famously came unstuck when he admitted he hadn't "sat down and started at the beginning and gone through it". We have read it, so you don't have to.The podcast takes a deep dive into the three strands of the agreement and also considers what was left in, what was taken out and what was kicked down the road and left for a future commission to decide.
Former BBC journalist Martina Purdy said on the podcast that politicians were asked to "push a button" instead of signing the agreement on paper. "There were no celebrations in our house," she said. "We just felt relief that we'd got it done. I had no food in the house and I think we had fish and chips for tea. The next day David went to get money out of the hole-in-the-wall and he'd forgotten his PIN number - that was the sort of pressure he was under."
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