Trying to escape from a legacy of division

THE long, painful process of bringing closure to the trauma around the great wrongs committed on this island continues at its drip-drip, almost glacial pace. 

The process is so very slow, so very open-ended, that it casts a shadow over the efforts to build a normalised society. It perpetuates division and will do so until finally, as it must be, a line is drawn under those terrible events.

The work of the Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains is a reminder of what a great achievement the North’s peace deal is.