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Interview with Bertie Ahern by David Frost for BBC Breakfast with Frost on 13 October 2002

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Transcript of an interview with Bertie Ahern, Irish Taoiseach, by David Frost for BBC Breakfast with Frost on 13 October 2002. During that year confidence in the stability of the Northern Ireland Assembly was undermined by continued paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland and abroad, community tensions in Belfast and allegations of a republican spy-ring at Stormont. In this interview Ahern discusses the long-term future of power-sharing government in Northern Ireland in light of these difficulties. One day later John Reid, then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, announced a suspension of devolved government and a return to direct rule. Breakfast with Frost was a weekly current affairs programme on BBC.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 13 October 2002

Name of First Interviewee: Bertie Ahern

Role at time of Interview: Irish Taoiseach

Interviewer: David Frost

Purpose: News

Media: Transcript

Copyright: © BBC Breakfast with Frost

Link: Read the transcript

Programme/Book/Article: BBC Breakfast with Frost

Time Period covered: 2002

Key Individuals: Bertie Ahern, Tony Blair, John Reid, David Trimble, Martin McGuinness, Brian Cowan, Gerry Adams

Key Words: Suspension of Institutions, Sinn Féin, community relations, religion, Nice Treaty, referendum, European Union

 

 

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