Good Friday Agreement is past its sell-by date as divisions deepen
DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson. Picture by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
Eoin O’Malley
In East Belfast, two miles from Parliament Buildings in Stormont, there’s a piece of graffiti on a wall proclaiming: “The GFA is dead.” The GFA is the Good Friday — or Belfast — Agreement, and with yet another collapse in the Stormont executive it appears the person who painted this message might be close to right.
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