[6] Amid turmoil in the Coalition, Langhammer refused to take part in the talks which led to the Good Friday Agreement, holding that the set-up for them was "institutionalised sectarianism".
In 2005, he was unsuccessful in elections to the Irish Labour Party National Executive Committee (NEC), but was co-opted on the proposal of Kathleen Lynch.
[citation needed] In 2001 Langhammer campaigned to have a permanent Police Service of Northern Ireland presence established in the loyalist Rathcoole area, where the South East Antrim Brigade of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) was particularly noted for racketeering and violence.
[8] In September that same year a pipe bomb was left under Langhammer's car outside his Whiteabbey home although it exploded in the early hours with no one hurt.
Franz Langhammer was forced to flee the country when the Nazis invaded in 1938 and he opted to move to Northern Ireland as he felt his background as a printer would help him to obtain work in the then thriving textile industry.