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Belfast or Good Friday Agreement?

bobbyss

Why do the DUP call the above the Belfast Agreement and some others call it either?

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Ted_YNWA

It is the same thing.

I presume it is down to petty religious reasons they do not call it Good Friday. DUP have some form for being set in their ways.

Dravokivich

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

It is the same thing.

I presume it is down to petty religious reasons they do not call it Good Friday. DUP have some form for being set in their ways.

Good Friday is a protestant holiday too.

EmmetSpiceland

Dravokivich wrote: »

Good Friday is a protestant holiday too.

The DUP probably call it something less “positive”.

Charlie19

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

The DUP probably call it something less “positive”.

The ok Friday agreement.

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The official, internationally recognised name, is the Belfast Agreement. The Good Friday Agreement is a colloquialism.

buried

bobbyss wrote: »

Why do the DUP call the above the Belfast Agreement and some others call it either?

Because the DUP never signed up to the Good Friday Agreement.

bobbyss

buried wrote:

Because the DUP never signed up to the Good Friday Agreement.

Who signed up to the GFA?

Dank Janniels

Every treaty is named after where it was signed, eg- Lisbon, Maastricht, Croke Park etc

buried

bobbyss wrote: »

Who signed up to the GFA?

Everybody else, bar the same sort of trash that wanted to see the bloodshed go on.

Check it out for yourself.

gmisk

bobbyss wrote: »

Who signed up to the GFA?

The DUP didn't sign it and didn't support it.
I think the other main parties supported it.
It was signed by Bertie ahern and Tony Blair as far as I remember.

McDermotX

Belfast Agreement was the agreement between the parties involved bar the DUP etc

Ratification via both the Northern Ireland Good Friday Agreement Referendum, and the Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland is the actual thing everyone on the island is essentially signed up to.

Just go with the opposite of anything the DUP mention, and you'll normally be on the right path.

Edgware

Charlie19 wrote: »

The ok Friday agreement.

The " I cant believe the Shinners fell for it" agreement

Quantum Erasure

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

It is the same thing.

I presume it is down to petty religious reasons they do not call it Good Friday.....

maybe they're just more religious than the rest of us, showing proper reverence to sacred occasions....

Del2005

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

maybe they're just more religious than the rest of us, showing proper reverence to sacred occasions....

Which sacred occasion is that seeing as most Christian ones are stolen from pagan festivals? Are you saying that the DUP are pagans?

Quantum Erasure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday

road_high

I notice in recent weeks Tory politicians seem to be deliberately referring to it as the Good Friday agreement- bit of subtle diplomacy going on there I reckon which is very welcome

Del2005

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2010/apr/03/easter-pagan-symbolism

dxhound2005

Edgware wrote: »

The " I cant believe the Shinners fell for it" agreement

The next breakthrough will be when they start calling Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland. In a subtle lack of diplomacy over the years they have been calling it The North of Ireland or The Six Counties.