IN the context of the great changes that have occurred recently in the development of peace in Ireland, it would be churlish not to acknowledge the role played by President Mary McAleese and her husband, Martin, in helping to turn what once seemed a forlorn hope into a robust reality that should augur well for the future.

IT was a great relief that Sinn Féin, through a combination of skill and determination, had persuaded its membership to vote in favour of the party’s motion supporting a new era in policing in Northern Ireland.

THE fundamentalist organisers of the ‘Free the DUP from Secularism’ campaign need have no fear that the party’s main movers are out of touch with the Lord.

SINCE the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, the British government always had to bear in mind the desirability of keeping the Unionist Party comfortable with the devolution project.