On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement the political institutions it created are in deep freeze yet again, writes endamcclafferty, so is the peace deal still fit for purpose?
Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair were two of the key architects of the Good Friday AgreementBut he warns that "the important thing is that we keep what is the essential principle of the Good Friday Agreement, which is that the constitutional status of Northern Ireland is decided by the people there".
The former Ulster Unionist Party leader says the decision to remove the power of assembly members to elect the first and deputy first ministers on a cross-community platform has backfired on the DUP. However before the St Andrew's Agreement both posts were jointly elected by the assembly with cross-community support from both unionists and nationalists.
The former Alliance leader believes the surge in support for his old party reinforces the need to ditch Stormont's designation system.
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