🎸🎤Glastonbury '98 had Tony Bennett, Bob Dylan and Robbie Williams - but NI '98 had Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and George Mitchell performing in the muddy water of the peace talks.🎤🎸 So how did it go when the band got back together for GFA25?
Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and Bertie Ahern opened the conference on day one with reflection on the peace deal.It was unofficially billed as getting the band back together - this was Glastonbury for political nerds.
Joined by two NI secretaries of state then and now, and one former US secretary of state for good measure.That is until day two, when it was thrown by an unlikely headline act not renowned for his public performances. "Masterclass," beamed DUP MP Ian Paisley Jr, whose very appearance at this Good Friday Agreement love-in - representing a party which campaigned against the deal 25 years ago - seemed to annoy half the audience.
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