St Andrews and the Port Tunnel
The principal all-Ireland political development came in Scotland. From 11 to 13 October, the Irish and British governments held intensive talks with Northern Ireland’s parties at St Andrews. Their joint proposals, published on 13 October as the St Andrews Agreement, sought to complete a task left unresolved since the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement of 1998: restoring the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive on terms that the parties then dominant within unionism and nationalism could accept.