Handshake of history

It may have been a simple handshake between two people, but for the watching world, Martin McGuinness and Britain’s Queen Elizabeth made history.

Handshake of history

Much had been said and written ahead of the meeting between the deputy first minister and the monarch at Belfast’s Lyric Theatre.

But the title of the venue’s current play summed up the mood of the day — Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.

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