GFA#2 Women of the hour

Red Lines

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4.6 • 74 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Mark Carruthers is joined by Bronagh Hinds, one of the founding members of the Women's Coalition, Dawn Purvis, a former MLA and leader of the Progressive Unionist Party, Kathleen Stephens, the former US Consul General in Belfast and Liz O’Donnell, a former Progressive Democrat TD and Minister of State in the Department of Foreign Affairs plus of course Mark Simpson who was the BBC Political Correspondent covering the negotiations.

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0:00.0	Around this time 25 years ago, a lot of men, many of them grey men in grey suits,
0:05.6	were grappling with the big challenge of moving the politics of this place forward.
0:10.2	And I say men quite deliberately.
0:12.5	There weren't a lot of women in the mix, though there were some.
0:15.9	We are made up of Protestant and Catholic women, women from rural areas, women from urban areas. Sit down and stop wasting time.
0:24.6	We're only wasting time.
0:26.6	We are made up of young women and older women.
0:28.6	Our political perspectives are as diverse as our ages.
0:32.6	I don't know who the lady is. She's not even a delegate.
0:36.6	Excuse me, I am one of the representatives of the Women's Coalition.
0:40.3	Dr. Paisley knows that very well.
0:42.3	I have been in the negotiations.
0:44.3	She has no voting powers whatsoever.
0:46.3	I have been in the negotiations.
0:47.3	Well, she knows that.
0:48.3	The time has come for the ordinary man in Ulster to give his verdict on this pernicious agreement.
0:59.1	What's your assessment? As a woman.
1:01.5	This isn't about women's issues. We are in there arguing constitutional issues.
1:05.6	There's nobody going to go back to war over this document.
1:08.4	I think too and I believe we've moved beyond a culture of failure.
1:13.0	Well, that's just a snapshot of one aspect of the talks that led to the signing of the Good
1:17.7	Friday Agreement, a quarter of a century ago. Some of the male politicians involved were,
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