A peace process or a process in pieces?

What happens in the next four weeks will determine the rest of the year in Northern Ireland, writes Political Correspondent Shaun Connolly.

THE statue of Henry Cooke stands tall in Belfast city centre as a totem of Protestant dominance, but the weather has played a cruel trick on the Presbyterian hero by turning him the colour Loyalists fear is now engulfing the North - green.

Easing the unionist community out of this siege mentality was the driving aim of yesterday’s Farmleigh summit, which pushed symbolism rather than substance.