Day full of promise fails to deliver

PROTAGONISTS in the Northern Ireland peace process have often quoted the poet Seamus Heaney’s desire that some day hope and history might rhyme.

Day full of promise fails to deliver

Yet on yesterday's evidence the parties seem more intent on hype than history.

The announcement that Assembly elections are to be held in Northern Ireland next month has not proved to be the magic wand which was to make most of the problems disappear.

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