There are now more than a million passengers carried on the Enterprise each year
In 1998, one of the most contentious aspects of the Good Friday Agreement was cross-border bodies. Having himself helped pull down power-sharing in 1974 over the Council of Ireland, David Trimble was nervous about how many North-South bodies there would be, how powerful they’d be and who’d control them.
Some 27 years later, those bodies have been one of the agreement’s least controversial elements. Dealing with language, waterways, food safety, trade, and EU peace funds, they’re rarely in the news. From a nationalist perspective, this part of the agreement has been a failure.