At a time when compromise is disdained, and peace prospects for foreign conflicts seem unreachable, the survival of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement is a source of optimism.
President Joe Biden meets with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in the Oval Office of the White House on Friday.When Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar visits President Joe Biden for the annual White House St. Patrick’s Day celebration, they will be paying tribute to more than Ireland’s patron saint., which — with major input from the United States — ended 30 years of brutal “Troubles” between Northern Ireland’s Protestants and Catholics.
Yet, that success, which has surmounted many bumps, was nearly undone by London’s decision to exit the European Union. Moreover, the DUP miraculously accepted that Belfast’s first minister, Michelle O’Neill, would come from the Catholic nationalist party, Sinn Fein, which, for the first time, had received the most votes in Northern Ireland elections. The DUP’s deputy first minister, Emma Little-Pengelly, actually has equal powers with her Sinn Fein coleader, but the
“We live on a small island in the Atlantic, and in total, we are just under seven million people, so we are determined to show that our collective space is a shared concern,” she added.“If you look at the polls, the majority in the republic is in favor of unification,” said the ambassador, while between 30%-39% in Northern Ireland want a united Ireland. “But the issue is how do you get there. I don’t think we are there yet.
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