{"id":166809,"date":"2025-06-08T05:23:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T05:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166809\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T05:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T05:23:15","slug":"sam-mcbride-the-enterprise-train-between-belfast-and-dublin-is-breaking-down-more-barriers-on-the-island-than-all-the-official-bodies-combined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166809\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam McBride: The Enterprise train between Belfast and Dublin is breaking down more barriers on the island than all the official bodies combined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"There are now more than a million passengers carried on the Enterprise each year\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/b9ae6ef3-f716-4077-9259-4da8fcf42196.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">There are now more than a million passengers carried on the Enterprise each year<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">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\u2019d be and who\u2019d control them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Some 27 years later, those bodies have been one of the agreement\u2019s least controversial elements. Dealing with language, waterways, food safety, trade, and EU peace funds, they\u2019re rarely in the news. From a nationalist perspective, this part of the agreement has been a failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are now more than a million passengers carried on the Enterprise each year In 1998, one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[69799,1144,6410,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-166809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-david-trimble","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-sam-mcbride","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114646076853794805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}