Mark Durkan on Belfast Agreement: ‘What are you going to replace it with?’

Former SDLP leader says deal has been damaged but has not outlived its usefulness

Freya McClements
The SDLP’s Mark Durkan on the Peace Bridge spanning the River Foyle in Derry, Northern Ireland. “It’s about getting back to the Agreement. Does that mean that people go back to supporting the SDLP? I don’t know. That’s a choice for future elections, and for the wider electorate.” Photograph: Trevor McBride

The SDLP’s Mark Durkan on the Peace Bridge spanning the River Foyle in Derry, Northern Ireland. “It’s about getting back to the Agreement. Does that mean that people go back to supporting the SDLP? I don’t know. That’s a choice for future elections, and for the wider electorate.” Photograph: Trevor McBride

Twenty years after the murders of Philip Allen and Damien Trainor, Mark Durkan still thinks of them.

The friends – one Protestant, the other Catholic – were having an evening drink in the Railway Bar in Poyntzpass, Co Armagh, when loyalists burst into the pub and shot them dead.

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