No longer centre of global stage

PARADES and emblems continued to dominate proceedings as each delegation paraded in and out of Hillsborough Castle demanding the emblematic capitulation of the other.

The North has seen many crisis-points like this in its bloody and bitter recent history, where deadlines and all-night negotiations fuse while the rolling news channels wait breathlessly in the dark and the cold for the live feed and the breakthrough to emerge.

But time moves on and the tides of history and global attention are lapping away from the North as fresh horrors command centre stage.