Voting for an assembly that might never even assemble
The Independent|May 04, 2022
The recent 25th anniversary of New Labour's election triumph served as a reminder that the Good Friday Agreement celebrates its own silver jubilee next year.
SEAN O'GRADY
Voting for an assembly that might never even assemble

Yet, because of Brexit and a variety of modern manifestations of the ancient “Irish question”, the future of the peace deal itself is in doubt.

As an intricate framework of mutually dependent crosscommunity structures, it was never designed to deal with the possibility that Ireland and the UK would find themselves in different economic zones, let alone the current scenario in which Northern Ireland finds itself in a place all of its own: the overlapping bit of a Venn diagram between the EU and the UK.

The situation has given rise to irksome checks on trade, and is thus the biggest single issue for many voters in Northern Ireland and also the biggest danger to peace.

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