[1] https://www.insideover.com/politics/un-accuses-eu-of-violati...
The whole city felt to me like a wounded animal that has only just stopped bleeding, and not it's begging for some time for its scars to heal.
Even from a distance the importance of the peace brokered in Ireland is tangible, I feel.
What the royals and ruling classes did to Ireland seems as bad as anything they did elsewhere in the 'Empire'. It mightn't be logical, but all that history can't be ignored. The memories of oppression live long.
Also, what most people who get their opinions on the GFA from people in the EU (largely dictated by Irish Catholics who believe that Northern Ireland will become part of Ireland) is that introducing a border within the UK is not any less of a problem than introducing one in Ireland. The UK govt's plan was to implement a solution which didn't cause any friction, it is clear now that all of the implementation was left to the UK and the EU washed it's hands of everything (again, the whole principle of GFA is that this is everyone's problem). If you are a Protestant in Northern Ireland though, the EU's position is/has been very worrying and contrary to the GFA in every degree (a principle of the GFA is that Northern Ireland is part of the UK, the EU issuing legal opinions and advising the Irish govt that NI would still be part of the EU if it left the UK does not suggest they understand what the GFA says at a fundamental level).
It's also the deliberateness that has upset people - breaching a complex agreement inadvertently is very different from setting out to do it deliberately.
the EU ignored its WTO state aid comittments when it suited it, and now is trying to force a much much stronger version of the rules that it routinely breaks, onto the UK
Personally I'd've preferred staying in the EU and exercising a little more 'flexibility' in interpreting bloc rules to suit our tastes, as some other EU states are wont to do.