Updates on our work
The Latest
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Statement on Drumcree
The bipartisan Ad Hoc Committee to Protect the Good Friday Agreement has written to the Northern Ireland Secretary of State Chris Byrant, M.P. regarding the ongoing standoff and negotiations between the Drumcree Orange Order and the residents of the Garvaghy Road.
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Meeting with SDLP Leader
Ad Hoc members meet SDLP leader A small group of Ad Hoc members met last Saturday with SDLP leader Claire Hanna and the Mayor of Derry/Strabane Lillian Seenoi-Barr. Key issues raised included. SDLP role as Opposition in Stormont and party future growth, Legacy reform and PSNI , Challenge of PSNI Jon Boucher to UK secrecy…
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Letter to Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
The Ad Hoc Committee to Protect the Good Friday Agreement recently wrote to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Hilary Benn.
The Issues
The Ad-Hoc Committee continues to work on protecting the spirit of the Good Friday Agreement.
Congressman Bruce Morrison, Ambassador Melanne Verveer, Irish Ambassador Dan Mulhall with a Dail Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement at the Irish Embassy in DC. Sir Jeffery Donaldson and the DUP delegation First Minister Michelle O’Neill House of Commons Northern Ireland Committee 
SDLP delegation led by Colum Eastwood and Leader of the Assembly Opposition Matt O’Toole 
Cong. Joe Kennedy III and NI union and victims delegation 
Northern Ireland Secretary of State Brandon Lewis 
Sean Pender (AOH) NI Secretary of State Brandon Lewis, Senator Billy Lawless 
Cong Jim Walsh and Ambassador Dan Mulhall 
Kevin O’Sullivan, Susan Davis, Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill, Peter Kessler Sinn Fein President Mary Lou MacDonald, Ad-Hoc Cofounder Bruce Morrison, Northern Ireland First Minister Michele O’Neill, and Ad-Hoc Vice Chair Susan Davis. DUP Leader Jeffrey Donaldson meets Ad Hoc membership NI Minister for Economics Conor Murphy DUP delegation led by Sir Jeffery Donaldson First Minister Michelle O’Neill & First Ministers Emma Pengeally 
Kevin Sullivan, Leo Varadkar, Emma DeSouza 
Billy Lawless, Senator of the Diaspora and Emma De Souza 
Billy Lawless, Senator of the Diaspora and Emma De Souza
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“The Good Friday Agreement is a work of genius…
The most interesting thing was by creating a space for the identity and the interests and the values of all the people involved – in a framework which protected democracy and let future demographic, economic and political changes take Northern Ireland wherever it would go – it was a work of surpassing genius.”
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President Bill Clinton
Relfecting on the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement
