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Belfast or Good Friday Agreement?

  • 17-10-2019 8:12pm
    #1
    bobbyss
    Registered Users Posts: 5,190 ✭✭✭


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


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  • #2
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #3
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #4
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,526 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Good Friday is a protestant holiday too.

    The DUP probably call it something less “positive”.

    The tide is turning…



  • #5
    Charlie19
    Registered Users Posts: 11,713 ✭✭✭✭Charlie19


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    The DUP probably call it something less “positive”.

    The ok Friday agreement.


  • #6
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


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


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  • #7
    buried
    Registered Users Posts: 9,669 ✭✭✭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.

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



  • #8
    bobbyss
    Registered Users Posts: 5,190 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    buried wrote:
    Because the DUP never signed up to the Good Friday Agreement.

    Who signed up to the GFA?


  • #9
    Dank Janniels
    Registered Users Posts: 641 ✭✭✭Dank Janniels


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


  • #10
    buried
    Registered Users Posts: 9,669 ✭✭✭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.

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



  • #11
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 31,825 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #12
    McDermotX
    Registered Users Posts: 14,611 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #13
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Charlie19 wrote: »
    The ok Friday agreement.

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


  • #14
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,160 ✭✭✭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....


  • #15
    Del2005
    Registered Users Posts: 18,869 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #16
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,160 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


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


  • #17
    road_high
    Registered Users Posts: 19,385 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #18
    Del2005
    Registered Users Posts: 18,869 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday

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


  • #19
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,474 ✭✭✭✭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.


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