Transcript of an interview with Seamus Mallon, deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, by David Frost for BBC Breakfast with Frost on 5 November 2000. One week earlier David Trimble effectively placed a ban on Sinn Fein attending North-South ministerial meetings in an attempt to accelerate IRA decommissioning. Mallon discusses the impact of the ban and the limited progress on decommissioning on the stability of power-sharing government in Northern Ireland. On 30 January 2001 a Belfast High Court ruled that the imposition of a ban was illegal. Breakfast with Frost was a weekly BBC current affairs programme.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 05 November 2000
Name of First Interviewee: Seamus Mallon
Role at time of Interview: Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland and deputy leader of the SDLP
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: 2000
Key Individuals: Seamus Mallon, David Trimble, John de Chastelain
Key Words: SDLP, UUP, Sinn Féin, North-South relations, Belfast Agreement, Good Friday Agreement, decommissioning, IICD, Hillsborough Declaration