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Interview with Seamus Mallon by David Frost for BBC Breakfast with Frost on 5 March 2000

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Transcript of an interview with Seamus Mallon, deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, by David Frost for BBC Breakfast with Frost on 5 March 2000. On 11 February Peter Mandelson, then British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, suspended devolved government on the basis of unsatisfactory movement on the decommissioning issue. Mallon assesses the potential impact of that decision on the peace process and discusses strategies for a return to devolved government in Northern Ireland. Breakfast with Frost was a weekly BBC current affairs programme.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 05 March 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, Peter Mandelson, John de Chastelain, David Trimble

Key Words: SDLP, Sinn Féin, UUP, IRA, Belfast Agreement, Good Friday Agreement, decommissioning, suspension of the institutions, De Chastelain report

 

 

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