Mark Durkan
Former Member of Parliament of the United KingdomWikipedia
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Oct 4, 2026
Valerie CoxGUEST
Yeah.
Valerie CoxGUEST
Um, uh, in fact, there's a piece this morning in, uh, the Mail, uh, from Mark Durkan, the former Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland and leader of the SDLP, and he talks about that and, um, the attitudes and anxieties around Drumcree at the moment.
Valerie CoxGUEST
And he said, you know, "It should be acknowledged that they've expressed themselves without the violent disorder and deadly dangers that played out in the 1990s." But you know, Ciara, I was one of the journalists in Ireland who covered that back in the 1990s, particularly between '95 and 2000, and I'll never forget it.
Valerie CoxGUEST
I mean, you'd go up there morning, noon, or night, and very often during the night, and there was an eerie air about the place.
Máiría CahillPANELIST
You know, we were supposed to since, well, 28 years since the Good Friday Agreement, we were supposed to put in place things like reconciliation, like learning to be able to live with your neighbour.
Máiría CahillPANELIST
And what happened was politicians concentrated so much on the political process, and I see that Mark Durkan, former SDLP leader, former Deputy First Minister, has alluded to this in the Mail on Sunday today.
Máiría CahillPANELIST
Stormont basically has been down more than 40% of the time, sorry, almost 40% of the time since 1998.
Máiría CahillPANELIST
And so all of that energy has gone into beating that sectarian drum on both sides of the House in order to try to galvanise voters towards keeping that up and running come election time.
Alan WhysallGUEST
However-
Rory MontgomeryHOST
Though having said that, I can, I can confirm that we were talking to Mark Durkan and Seamus Mallon all the time.
Alan WhysallGUEST
Yes, absolutely.
Alan WhysallGUEST
A-absolutely so.