North faces new dilemma as it slides into politics of mediocrity

Adams says the perpetrators of the Quinn murder are criminals and everyone should cooperate with the PSNI.

But most analysts seem to be sure the IRA did it and there have been suggestions that prominent republican personalities may know rather a lot about these events

THE singer Van Morrison always gets the mood right doesn’t he? In the summer of 1998 his song Days Like This was employed by the Northern Ireland Office to conjure up a mood of contentment. It played over the ads which underpinned the Yes vote in the referendum on the Good Friday agreement.