Audio interview with Frank Giffikin, Lecturer in the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering at Queen’s University, Belfast for the BBC. The Belfast Agreement/ Good Friday Agreement gave a commitment to the development of a new regional development strategy within Northern Ireland. This was set out in 1999 in a government document entitled Shaping our future which later integrated suggestions from groups and organisations in wider society. Gaffikin discusses this policy document and the potential of the new regional development strategy. This interview forms part of the BBC Northern Ireland A State Apart online resource which documents thirty years of peace and violence in Northern Ireland from the Troubles to the Belfast Agreement/Good Friday Agreement.
Date of Release/Broadcast: Unknown
Name of First Interviewee: Frank Gaffikin
Role at time of Interview: Lecturer in the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering at Queen’s University, Belfast
Interviewer: Unknown
Purpose: News, Research
Media: Audio
Copyright: BBC © 2012
Link: Listen to the interview
Programme/Book/Article: BBC Northern Ireland A State Apart
Time Period covered: 1998
Key Individuals: Frank Gaffikin, Ian Paisley
Key Words: Belfast Agreement, Good Friday Agreement, regional development, public transport, unionist