Irish Examiner view: A bitter pill that might heal wounds

When do we set aside the horrors of the past to concentrate on the objectives that brought those horrors about?

Tiger's Bay 'Eleventh Night' bonfire in Belfast alight in the early hours of Monday morning. Picture: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

The space between trying to reconcile ourselves to the past and resolve extremely difficult legacies is a minefield straddling all societies — as this week’s pyrotechnics across Northern Ireland confirmed. 

Earlier this week, another expression of that tribalism meant Italy’s footballers had far more supporters in this Republic than even history’s most influential papal nuncio might have dreamed of.