Bracing wine of reality continues to blow in FF’s policy on the North

I SUSPECT that some time in the future a couple of eccentric academics or postgraduate students will study the developments which have occurred in Fianna Fáil’s Northern Ireland policy in the last two and a half decades.

They will find a lot of source material in the various speeches given at Fianna Fáil Árd Fheiseanna.

Brian Cowen's speech to last Saturday night's gathering in Killarney should attract their particular attention. Fianna Fáil's Northern Ireland policy has changed significantly over this period.