It’s time for the next step in building good Northern relations

AN INTRIGUING aspect of the talks in St Andrews is that there has been no mention of resolving partition.

This distinguishes the current talks from most of those over the last century when the partition question inevitably overshadowed all Anglo-Irish negotiations.

It was the great red herring that was used to obscure some of the greatest political failings and thus distort and poison our politics for much of the century.