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Brian Mengel, Civil Servant
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The Good Friday Agreement requires the Executive to propose and implement Programmes for Government and it requires the Assembly to approve such programmes and their accompanying Budgets.
The Good Friday Agreement states that the commission must consult and advise on the scope of defining rights supplementary to the European Convention on Human Rights.
It is as if the Good Friday Agreement and the bounden duty on the Minister and Ministers and on the Department and Departments to take resolute action to promote Irish-medium education did not exist.
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Keith Tennant, Factory Worker
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The Broncos will play the Roosters in a Good Friday match at Aussie Stadium on April 18th while a Double Header on Easter Sunday featuring Bulldogs vs Dragons and Wests Tigers vs Eels is expected.
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Paddy McGuinness, Newsagent
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The Good Friday Agreement was never a perfect solution to the troubles of Ulster but I gleaned from it a willingness and endeavour that might bring change not only to Ulster, not only to Ireland but also to the whole British Isles.
The Good Friday Agreement represented a revolutionary advance in republican thinking, was an attempt to redeem the armed struggle and reinvent Irish republicanism.
He says the Good Friday Agreement is dead and proposes negotiations for a new agreement that will not leave the other parties dependent on Sinn Fein behaving itself.
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Khalid Binalshibh, Taxi Driver
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It is also the beginning of Lent, where Catholic exercise restrain by fasting on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday and to abstain from eating meats on each Friday leading to Easter Day.
Good Friday and all other Fridays of the year, in commemoration of the Lord's crucifixion, except for Fridays in the Christmas and Easter seasons, and any Feasts of our Lord which occur on a Friday.
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Mark Harris, Priest
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Our Good Friday and Easter processions make a declaration that Christ is the enlightenment of the world, that Christ brings salvation, that Christ is the fulfillment of all of man’s hopes and desires.
It is that forgiveness of sins, that meaning of life, that guarantee of the future that is made possible because of what Christ did on the cross on Good Friday and what He did when He was raised to new life on that Easter Sunday morning.
The curse of Calvary became a blessing and the gloom of Good Friday was followed by the joy of Easter Day Christians speak of Christ crucified and risen again.
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