Dermot Nesbitt was one of the negotiators of the Good Friday Agreement and then a key backer of David Trimble in the years after the deal was struck in 1998, The Crossgar man has had a remarkable life in politics and academia and went on to become a Stormont minister. He was standing beside the unionist politician and academic Edgar Graham when he was murdered by the IRA on Queen’s University’s Belfast campus in 1983, Northern Ireland Editor, Sam McBride, interviews Dermot Nesbitt as he reflects on where unionism went wrong in Northern Ireland’s early decades, where it is still going wrong today and what the future holds for Northern Ireland.
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