The shy 12-year-old found herself in front of the world's media and global leaders as she spoke out for peace as the Good Friday Agreement was brokered
A Belfast woman who made headlines around the world when, as a schoolgirl, she asked Tony Blair to bring peace to Northern Ireland, has said she believes current politicians have betrayed the Good Friday Agreement.
She told the PA news agency: “I wrote to Boyzone – I loved Boyzone at the time – and to Mother Theresa and to Cherie Blair, telling her that I had only ever known one year of peace in my life because of the Troubles. “He sat me down and said there was a room full of reporters from all around the world wanting to speak to me.
Ms Gibney now works as a trauma counsellor in Belfast and said she has mixed feelings about Mr Blair.“But as you get older you see other things, the inconsistency, Blair going into the Iraq War after being so heavily involved in the peace process here.With 2023 marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Ms Gibney said she is angry about the current state of politics.