We enter a period where the scale of change is going to outpace events

Grand-coalition would be a selfeating ebola, and leave its advocates more discomforted than ever, writes Gerard Howlin

THERESA MAY announced on Monday that she will trigger Brexit on Wednesday, March 29. Early yesterday morning Martin McGuinness died; the union he so staunchly opposed is now imperilled at source.

Tonight, Enda Kenny will meet his parliamentary party, but there will be no imminent departure. Any disturbance to the status quo within Fine Gael would likely inflict most damage on those blamed for it. There is likely to be a period now of weeks, perhaps even months, when though apparently everything is changing, not a lot is evidently happening. It is likely to be a time, when unusually the pace of events, does not keep pace with the scale of change. But unstoppable change has begun.