Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 May 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Engagement with Strive

Ms Mary Nolan:

This young man had an opinion on the protocol and on Brexit and it was a very staunch, loyalist ideology - old-time thinking. When he first started talking everybody jumped on the bandwagon. In loyalist communities he was great and in republican or nationalist communities he was this, that and the other. Then he got to speak to some nationalists and republicans about a shared island.

It really opened his mind and then he spoke with Paddy Kielty. It just goes to show that without the pressures from everybody on top of him and with him being allowed to have space to think and broaden his opinions, which is what we are about, he has a really bright political career ahead of him.

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