Northern Ireland and Good Friday Agreement

• Leader of SDLP

  John Hume
• Sinn Fein

  Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness
• Both Unionists and Republicans trusted the chairman of the talks:

  Mitchell
• Blair developed a close working relationship with the Irish Taoiseach

  Ahern
• Mo Mawlam kept paramilitaries on board by visiting them in the Maze Prison.
• 'Blair reassured David Trimble and the Ulster Unionists that Sinn Fein could be trusted'
• How many hours past Mitchell's deadline were the tense negotiations going on for?

  17
• One of UUP negotiators, Donaldson, walked out due to fear of IRA not decommission their arms
• 'Both UK and the Irish Republic would give up their claim on Northern Island and give the option to the join UK or Republic'
• 'A devolved Assembly along with a power sharing executive would be set up'.
• 'Decommissioning of arms'
• 'Northern Ireland, 71% voted for agreement'
• 'Republic, 94% voted yes'
• 'Sinn Fein was worried about republican backlash against them 'selling out'
• What was the name of the bombing in 1998?

  Omagh Bombing
• How many dead in Omagh Bombing

  30
• Who took over UUP as main unionist political party in Northen Ireland?

  DUP
• 'There were many disagreements in the following ten years, over the decomissioning of arms; early release of political prisoners; right of the Protestant Orange Order to march on in its traditional routes'.
• In what year were the devolved institutions suspended?

  2002
• 2006 Agreement name?

  St Andrews
• St Andrews agreement reiterated key features of the Good Friday Agreement