22/11/2007
Unionists Boycott Dublin Oireachtas
Some Northern Ireland politicans have been involved for the first time in the Oireachtas in Dublin.
Nationalist MPs from Northern Ireland today participated in a new Dublin committee set up to help implement the Good Friday Agreement.
While no unionists accepted seats on the committee, nationalists welcomed it as a further step in developing all-Ireland relations.
Northern Ireland representatives on the committee include the SDLP's South Belfast MP Alasdair McDonnell, South Down MP Eddie McGrady and Sinn Fein's Fermanagh/South Tyrone MP Michelle Gildernew and party colleague Pat Doherty, MP for west Tyrone - neither of whom have ever taken up their respective Westminster seats.
Speaking after the inaugural meeting on behalf of the SDLP, Mr McDonnell said he believed the committee would serve as a useful forum in ensuring the 1998 peace pact is fully implemented.
"I am pleased and I think it's very useful. If the meetings work and I think they can work as a tool to implement much of the Good Friday Agreement, I think it would be great,'' he said.
"We want to see the agreement taken apart piece-by-piece and fully implemented in the interests of all the people of the island.''
(BMcC)
Nationalist MPs from Northern Ireland today participated in a new Dublin committee set up to help implement the Good Friday Agreement.
While no unionists accepted seats on the committee, nationalists welcomed it as a further step in developing all-Ireland relations.
Northern Ireland representatives on the committee include the SDLP's South Belfast MP Alasdair McDonnell, South Down MP Eddie McGrady and Sinn Fein's Fermanagh/South Tyrone MP Michelle Gildernew and party colleague Pat Doherty, MP for west Tyrone - neither of whom have ever taken up their respective Westminster seats.
Speaking after the inaugural meeting on behalf of the SDLP, Mr McDonnell said he believed the committee would serve as a useful forum in ensuring the 1998 peace pact is fully implemented.
"I am pleased and I think it's very useful. If the meetings work and I think they can work as a tool to implement much of the Good Friday Agreement, I think it would be great,'' he said.
"We want to see the agreement taken apart piece-by-piece and fully implemented in the interests of all the people of the island.''
(BMcC)
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