“It created a positive image in those final few days'
The buzz generated by a U2 concert in Belfast during the referendum campaign for the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement boosted the Yes campaign, Mark Durkan has said.
In an interview with the PA news agency, Mr Durkan said they wanted to get at least two thirds backing the agreement, but opinion polls were showing a more marginal vote. “The No campaign, criticised it in all sorts of ways, no matter what arguments the rest of us used, they were taken and distorted and used by the No campaign.
Mr Durkan said then secretary of state Mo Mowlam urged a powerful handshake moment to generate momentum for the Yes campaign. “The original line-up was going to be Bono, and then it was Bono and The Edge, and then it was U2, but that became the handshake moment in the final week of the referendum campaign,” he said.
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