Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 February 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Ms Liz O'Donnell
John McGahon (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I thank Ms O'Donnell for coming in. What I find interesting about her outline is it shows the pressured situation she was in as part of the negotiation team. One of the things I have enjoyed about this is being able to get the different perspectives and views from people like her who were there. It seems like it was such a pressure cooker.
Moving to the points she had about David Trimble, she refers in her submission to efforts to "save David from himself" because of the pressure he was under. Will she expand on that a little more and give us an overview of the atmosphere he found himself having to face, including the DUP shouting in from outside the gates, essentially?
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