Former Sinn Féin leader GerryAdamsSF says he only recently realised how brave Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble had been to back the GoodFridayAgreement:
Gerry Adams speaks to the BBC ahead of events marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday AgreementFormer Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has said he only recently realised how difficult it had been for the Ulster Unionist leader, David Trimble, to support the Good Friday Agreement.Mr Adams was speaking ahead of the agreement's 25th anniversary in April.
Reflecting on this 25 years later, Mr Adams said: "Because we were so busy managing our own house, it was only when David Trimble died, and I saw some of the footage of him speaking at unionist meetings and other meetings with unionist folk, that I realised how brave he was in arguing as he was arguing."
Mr Adams denied this, but he said the chairperson of the negotiations, Senator George Mitchell, had discussed the issue of walkouts with him. "Subsequently, after the agreement, I used to meet him quite often, and privately, and we got on I think quite well, and we got to know each other at a personal level."Given the long history of Irish republican splits, Mr Adams was asked if he felt he had taken a personal risk in backing the agreement.
Asked if it could really have continued "forever", he replied: "Oh yes. For as long as it deemed it necessary, and had there not been the initiatives taken to present the alternative."There was some surprise in 1998 that Sinn Féin agreed to a deal that included a Northern Ireland Assembly, which met at Stormont.
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