A new year, yet the same old impasse and dreary steeples, so letâs begin by paraphrasing Dickens: âThe Good Friday Agreement is dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The DUP and SF know it is dead? Of course they do. How could it be otherwise? The DUP and SF have been partners for I donât know how many years. But there is no doubt that their Agreement is now dead: as dead as a doornail. And no ghosts from the past, present or future will haunt them into something better. They will not sponge away the writing on the stone.â | 
