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Today marks 28 years since the signing of the #GoodFridayAgreement. The agreement brought a peace that allowed communities to flourish, but #Brexit threatens to destabilise that peace daily. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phw9...
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On this day 28 years ago, the #GoodFridayAgreement was signed. This remarkable document – made possible by political leadership, vision, and compromise – helped end a cycle of violence that had continued for 30 years on the island of #Ireland.
https://www.ireland.ie/en/dfa/role-policies/northern-ireland/about-the-good-friday-agreement/
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‘Nobody’s in charge’: is power sharing still working in Northern Ireland? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/10/power-sharing-northern-ireland-28-years-good-friday-agreement #NorthernIreland #NorthernIrishPolitics #GoodFridayAgreement #SinnFin #DemocraticUnionistPartyDup #UkNews #WorldNews #Politics #MichelleOneill #Sdlp
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The #GoodFridayAgreement (1998) was a landmark political accord that helped bring peace to Northern Ireland after decades of conflict known as “The Troubles.” 7)
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Epstein claims cast shadow over legacy of Northern Ireland peacemakers Clinton and Mitchell https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/24/epstein-claims-shadow-legacy-northern-ireland-peacemakers-bill-clinton-george-mitchell #BillClinton #NorthernIreland #GeorgeMitchell #UkNews #UsNews #GoodFridayAgreement #WorldNews
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Was roaming in #NornIron not covered under the #GoodFridayAgreement?
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/659448/ Irish officials believed 9/11 would change how US politicians saw peace process – The Irish News #BertieAhern #disarmament #FBI #GeorgeW.Bush #GoodFridayAgreement #InternationalRelations #irish #NationalSecurityCouncil #NorthernIreland #PeaceProcess #records #RepublicOfIreland #September11Attacks #SinnFein #Terrorism #UK #UnitedKingdom #UnitedStates #USDepartmentOfJustice #WashingtonDC
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Irish officials believed 9/11 would change how US politicians saw peace process https://www.byteseu.com/1665540/ ##GoodFridayAgreement #BertieAhern #disarmament #FBI #GeorgeW.Bush #InternationalRelations #Ireland #NationalSecurityCouncil #NorthernIreland #PeaceProcess #September11Attacks #SinnFein #Terrorism #UnitedStates #USDepartmentOfJustice #WashingtonDC
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Conservative Party’s Plan to Repeal Human Rights Laws
Speech by the leader of the Conservative party in Manchester
October 2025
These are some extracts from the speech Kemi Badenoch MP gave to the Conservative party conference in Manchester this week. We have selected those parts which focus on human rights issues and in particular the plan to leave the European Convention and to repeal the Human Rights Act.
“[…] It is fundamental, why can’t we control our borders and remove those who need to go? All these
questions boil down to who should make the laws that govern the United Kingdom? Conservatives, believe it should be our sovereign Parliament, accountable to the British people. The reality today, is that this is simply not the case.
“This use of litigation as a political weapon is what I call lawfare. Well-meaning treaties and statutes – like the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Convention on Action against Trafficking drafted with the best of intentions in generations gone by, and more recent additions like the Modern Slavery Act, are now being used in ways never intended by their original authors.
“What should be shields to protect the vulnerable, have instead become swords to attack democratic decisions and frustrate common sense. It is that whole system which we need to reform. And the place to start is the European Convention on Human Rights.
Five tests that a country has to pass to be truly sovereign.
First, can we deport foreign criminals and those who are here illegally?
Second, can we stop our veterans being harassed through the courts?
Third, can we put British citizens first for social housing and public services?
Fourth, can we make sure protests do not intimidate people or stop them living their lives?
And fifth, can we stop endless red tape and legal challenges choking off economic growth?
[Lord Wolfson was commissioned to study the ECHR and our membership of it and produced a report the key conclusion was]
“When it comes to control of our sovereign borders, preventing our military veterans from being pursued indefinitely, ensuring prison sentences are applied rigorously for serious crimes, stopping disruptive protests, or placing blanket restrictions on foreign nationals in terms of social housing and benefits, the only way such positions are feasible would be to leave the ECHR.’
Commitment to leave
[Badenoch] “We must leave the ECHR and repeal the Human Rights Act. Conference, I want you to know that the next Conservative manifesto will contain our commitment to leave (our emphasis). Leaving the Convention is a necessary step, but not enough on its own to achieve our goals. If there are other treaties and laws, we need to revise or revisit then we will do so. And we will do so in the same calm and responsible way, working out the detail before we rush to announce.
“The rights we enjoy did not come from the ECHR. They were there for hundreds of years in our common law. Parliament has legislated over centuries to reflect and protect our freedoms. Human Rights in the United Kingdom did not start in 1998 with the Human Rights Act, and will not end with it. As we work through our detailed plan, we are clear that leaving the ECHR and repealing the Human Rights Act will not mean that we lose any of the rights we cherish”. […]
Comment
The statement by the Conservative leader is clear and unequivocal. Even allowing that it is a speech a long way from an election and designed to encourage a party currently scoring badly in the polls, it is part of a worrying trend with more and more voices calling for us to leave the ECHR.
The big claim towards the end of her speech quoted above that ‘Human Rights in the United Kingdom did not start in 1998 with the Human Rights Act, and will not end with it‘.’ Many did start, and some will end if it is repealed. If there will be no difference, then why the desire to end it? She seems to have forgotten that the HRA was introduced because people had to go to Strasbourg to get the justice denied them in the British courts. It is nonsense to claim that the HRA has added nothing of benefit to the rights of the ordinary person.
There are likely to be many who will disagree with Lord Wolfson’s benign conclusion that the proposed departure from the ECHR would be fully compliant with the Belfast Agreement.
Leaving the ECHR will be a retrograde step and have repercussions for our international relations. It is likely to make trade between us and Europe more difficult. We will join Russia and Belarus as the only nations outside its remit. Repealing the HRA – which has been promised several times before by Conservative leaders but never carried out – will seriously damage our rights as citizens. Combined with recent legislation to limit protests for example, it will be a retrograde step.
An Amnesty petition can be accessed here.
Speech accessed from the Conservative website [8 October]
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#conference #conservatives #ECHR #GoodFridayAgreement #HRA #KemiBadenoch #speech
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Mo Mowlam was the legend behind that on the Labour side, not Tonty fucking Blair
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Along with so many others, I will never advocate for a #UnitedIreland. I would take ten refugees any day over one of these boneheads behind this act of barbaric rascim. They are not and never will be Irish and our country has enough problems without having to accept or accommodate this lot.
It's simply not worth it.
#Ireland #Loyalist #unionist #British #GoodFridayAgreement #OrangeOrder -
Along with so many others, I will never advocate for a #UnitedIreland. I would take ten refugees any day over one of these boneheads behind this act of barbaric rascim. They are not and never will be Irish and our country has enough problems without having to accept or accommodate this lot.
It's simply not worth it.
#Ireland #Loyalist #unionist #British #GoodFridayAgreement #OrangeOrder -
Along with so many others, I will never advocate for a #UnitedIreland. I would take ten refugees any day over one of these boneheads behind this act of barbaric rascim. They are not and never will be Irish and our country has enough problems without having to accept or accommodate this lot.
It's simply not worth it.
#Ireland #Loyalist #unionist #British #GoodFridayAgreement #OrangeOrder -
Along with so many others, I will never advocate for a #UnitedIreland. I would take ten refugees any day over one of these boneheads behind this act of barbaric rascim. They are not and never will be Irish and our country has enough problems without having to accept or accommodate this lot.
It's simply not worth it.
#Ireland #Loyalist #unionist #British #GoodFridayAgreement #OrangeOrder -
Along with so many others, I will never advocate for a #UnitedIreland. I would take ten refugees any day over one of these boneheads behind this act of barbaric rascim. They are not and never will be Irish and our country has enough problems without having to accept or accommodate this lot.
It's simply not worth it.
#Ireland #Loyalist #unionist #British #GoodFridayAgreement #OrangeOrder -
Loyalist/Unionist culture in one image.
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/217892/ Sam McBride: A united Ireland is a serious idea and deserves to be taken seriously – yet often nationalism, as well as unionism, fails to do so #BorderPoll #DemocraticUnionistParty #GoodFridayAgreement #NorthernIreland #SamMcBride #SinnFein #UK #UnitedKingdom
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"10 April 1998" teableau for 04/10/25
On this day, 28 years ago, the Good Friday Agreement was signed in Belfast.
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#Tea #Teableau #TeaCozy #TeaCosy #BlackTea #Handmade #Sewing #IrishBreakfast #NorthernIreland #BelfastAgreement #GoodFridayAgreement #TheTroubles #Shamrock #CelticKnot #Spring
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#Labour Urged to 'Redouble Efforts' in Implementing #GoodFridayAgreement in Full as Political Unionism Deteriorates in #NorthernIreland – #BylineTimes - https://bylinetimes.com/2024/07/06/labour-urged-to-redouble-efforts-in-implementing-good-friday-agreement-in-full-as-political-unionism-deteriorates-in-northern-ireland/
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On 23rd May 1998 the Good Friday Agreement was accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with roughly 75% voting yes.In the Republic, 56% of the electorate voted, with 94% of the votes in favour of the amendment to the constitution. The turnout in Northern Ireland was 81%, with 71% of the votes in favour of the agreement.
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People who voted for the #GoodFridayAgreement on the island of Ireland, 1998: 2,119,549
People who voted for the Conservative Party on the island of Ireland, 2019: 5,433
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People who voted for the #GoodFridayAgreement on the island of Ireland, 1998: 2,119,549
People who voted for the Conservative Party on the island of Ireland, 2019: 5,433
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People who voted for the #GoodFridayAgreement on the island of Ireland, 1998: 2,119,549
People who voted for the Conservative Party on the island of Ireland, 2019: 5,433
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People who voted for the #GoodFridayAgreement on the island of Ireland, 1998: 2,119,549
People who voted for the Conservative Party on the island of Ireland, 2019: 5,433
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People who voted for the #GoodFridayAgreement on the island of Ireland, 1998: 2,119,549
People who voted for the Conservative Party on the island of Ireland, 2019: 5,433
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Northern Ireland appoints Irish nationalist as First Minister in historic shift https://www.euractiv.com/section/uk-europe/news/northern-ireland-appoints-irish-nationalist-as-first-minister-in-historic-shift/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #DUP #GoodFridayAgreement #NorthernIreland #SinnFein
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Rwanda: House of Lords must block immigration bill, over 250 charities write | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rwanda-bill-lords-sunak-charities-treaty-b2485340.html#Rwanda
#HOL
#RwandaBill
#AsylumSeekers
#SafetyOfRwandaAsylumAndImmigrationBill
#GoodFridayAgreement
#GFA
#HumanRights
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Ireland takes UK to European court over ‘Troubles’ amnesty law https://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/ireland-takes-uk-to-european-court-over-troubles-amnesty-law/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Brexit #EuropeanCourtofHumanRights #GoodFridayAgreement #Ireland
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Rwanda Bill: Most Brits think government does not care about their rights | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/rwanda-bill-liberty-polling-human-rights-government-doesnt-care/#HumanRights
#Rwanda
#RwandaBill
#British
#AsylumSeekers
#HumanRightsAct
#Liberty
#JudgesGagged
#CourtsGagged
#SupremeCourt
#Tories
#ECHR
#Jenrick
#JointCouncilForTheWelfareOfImmigrants
#JCWI
#HomeOffice
#GoodFridayAgreement
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Sunak risks ripping up Good Friday agreement over Rwanda, senior Tories say | Rishi Sunak | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/24/sunak-risks-ripping-up-good-friday-agreement-rwanda-senior-tories-say -
#Sunak risks ripping up #GoodFridayAgreement over #Rwanda, senior Tories say
Concerns echo #WhiteHouse remarks that blocking #HumanRights laws could undermine #NorthernIreland #peace process
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/24/sunak-risks-ripping-up-good-friday-agreement-rwanda-senior-tories-say
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The #humanhaystack then went on threaten and weaken the #GoodFridayAgreement which allowed the place I call home to find a delicate peace after 30 years of violence.
All for the sake of his ego and desire to be Prime Minister because #Eton told him he was entitled too!
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The #humanhaystack then went on threaten and weaken the #GoodFridayAgreement which allowed the place I call home to find a delicate peace after 30 years of violence.
All for the sake of his ego and desire to be Prime Minister because #Eton told him he was entitled too!
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@genie_mac @JohnLoader6 @bullivant
If they had of been thinking they would have taken May's original Withdrawal Agreement deal, which kept the whole of the UK in SM/CU.
This would have cemented #NI place in the UK union for quite sometime. They could have pushed the discussion about #Irishunity back for quite sometime.
However, they let the power go to their head. They wanted to try to repeal the #GoodFridayAgreement, so they could have a Border back.
What is happening is on them!
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@genie_mac @JohnLoader6 @bullivant
If they had of been thinking they would have taken May's original Withdrawal Agreement deal, which kept the whole of the UK in SM/CU.
This would have cemented #NI place in the UK union for quite sometime. They could have pushed the discussion about #Irishunity back for quite sometime.
However, they let the power go to their head. They wanted to try to repeal the #GoodFridayAgreement, so they could have a Border back.
What is happening is on them!
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@genie_mac @JohnLoader6 @bullivant
If they had of been thinking they would have taken May's original Withdrawal Agreement deal, which kept the whole of the UK in SM/CU.
This would have cemented #NI place in the UK union for quite sometime. They could have pushed the discussion about #Irishunity back for quite sometime.
However, they let the power go to their head. They wanted to try to repeal the #GoodFridayAgreement, so they could have a Border back.
What is happening is on them!
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Unionism is blocking progress in Ireland | Morning Star
#Unionism
#Ireland
#Biden
#Irishness
#AntiIrish
#Tories
#NorthernIrelandProtocol
#NIP
#Brexit
#WindsorFramework
#UlsterSaysNo
#GoodFridayAgreement
#PowerSharing
#Homophobia
#Homosexuality
#Sectarianism
#DUP
#LabourMovement
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Unionism is blocking progress in Ireland | Morning Star
#Unionism
#Ireland
#Biden
#Irishness
#AntiIrish
#Tories
#NorthernIrelandProtocol
#NIP
#Brexit
#WindsorFramework
#UlsterSaysNo
#GoodFridayAgreement
#PowerSharing
#Homophobia
#Homosexuality
#Sectarianism
#DUP
#LabourMovement
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Unionism is blocking progress in Ireland | Morning Star
#Unionism
#Ireland
#Biden
#Irishness
#AntiIrish
#Tories
#NorthernIrelandProtocol
#NIP
#Brexit
#WindsorFramework
#UlsterSaysNo
#GoodFridayAgreement
#PowerSharing
#Homophobia
#Homosexuality
#Sectarianism
#DUP
#LabourMovement
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@helvick I agree, he would have delivered quite a speech in #Stormont if it had been sitting. What an image that would have been to send to the world. 25 years after the #GoodFridayAgreement everyone of all shades, sitting together, working together for all. It would have won the #Unionists so much goodwill. But they went down the usual path and said no.
Just confirming what we all know...#Unionism isn't capable of operating in the 21st Century.
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IRLANDA: A DERRY MARCIA PER L’ANNIVERSARIO DELLA “RIVOLTA DI PASQUA” DEL 1916. MOLOTOV SULLA POLIZIA https://www.radiondadurto.org/2023/04/11/irlanda-a-derry-marcia-per-lanniversario-della-rivolta-di-pasqua-del-1916-molotov-sulla-polizia/ #goodfridayagreement #rivoltadipasqua #Internazionale #INTERNAZIONALI #IrlandadelNord #manifestazione #inghilterra #INEVIDENZA #ireland #irlanda #molotov #scontri #Storia #marcia #derry #News #1916
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"#GoodFridayAgreement showed what could be done when groups come together w will to finally avoid confrontation.
But this is still amoment of great delicacy, given instability caused by #Brexit, and in particular the #NorthernIrelandProtocol"
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"#GoodFridayAgreement showed what could be done when groups come together w will to finally avoid confrontation.
But this is still amoment of great delicacy, given instability caused by #Brexit, and in particular the #NorthernIrelandProtocol"
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*Significance of #GoodFridayAgreement
*Firm US position in support of #NorthernIrelandProtocol
Post-#Brexit position of US, #Ireland, & UK: as US-Irish relations build, London risks being on the outside w economic damage and self-imposed isolation
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*Significance of #GoodFridayAgreement
*Firm US position in support of #NorthernIrelandProtocol
Post-#Brexit position of US, #Ireland, & UK: as US-Irish relations build, London risks being on the outside w economic damage and self-imposed isolation
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Why Northern Ireland’s Youth want Reform of the Good Friday Agreement – Byline Times
#NorthernIreland
#NI
#GoodFridayAgreement
#Stormont
#MandatoryCoaltion
#PowerSharing
#DUP
#CitizensAssembly
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/03/30/why-northern-irelands-youth-want-reform-of-the-good-friday-agreement/ -
As the signing of #GoodFridayAgreement is remembered, those who took the chance on stopping the violence & death gripping NI. The #DUP will try to grab some of the limelight for themselves. What needs to be pointed out at every given opportunity that Foster & Donaldson left the #UUP because David Trimble took the hard decision to do what was right for NI. Joined the #DUP, who never supported and still don't support an agreement that brought peace. They don't get to rewrite their role.
