“Does this deal secure the future?”

Gordon Brown, Peter Robinson, Martin McGuinness and Brian Cowen announce the Hillsborough Castle Agreement

Gordon Brown, Peter Robinson, Martin McGuinness and Brian Cowen announce the Hillsborough Castle Agreement

“It began with real fears that Sinn Fein’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness might resign and a breakneck rush by Gordon Brown and Brian Cowen to Hillsborough to stave off the imminent collapse of the Stormont Assembly.  It continued through 10 days and almost as many nights of negotiations, interspersed with waves of optimism and pessimism about the outcome”

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