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Sammy Wilson: Varadkar and Coveney have destroyed relationships built during Good Friday Agreement

The Good Friday Agreement has effectively been dismantled by the Northern Ireland protocol

(l-r) Seamus Mallon, the then deputy first minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly, David Trimble, then first minister, Bill Clinton, the then US president and Tony Blair, the then British PM, addressing a crowd in the Odyssey Arena on December 13 2000 in Belfast. Picture: Getty

The Good Friday Agreement is clearly in tatters because none of its institutions is working. The Northern Ireland Assembly is not working. The cross-border bodies haven’t been working for well over a year. The East West bodies are not working either. By any objective means or judgement, the Good Friday Agreement has been dismantled by the Northern Ireland protocol.

The EU and the UK government both admit in the Windsor framework that there is an ...