Clips from this interview feature in As I Remember It: Bertie Ahern & the Good Friday Agreement #GFA25.

A founding member of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition (NIWC), Monica McWilliams was one of two members of her party to be elected to the Peace Talks in 1996.

During the talks, she championed proposals on victims of the conflict, on integrated education and shared housing, the establishment of a civic forum and the right of women to fair and equal political participation.

She became a signatory to the agreement in 1998 and campaigned on the pro-agreement signed in the following referendum.

Monica McWilliams served as an MLA for Belfast South between June 1998 and November 2003. 

 

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