Sinn Fein’s leaders,in no hurryTHIS year will notice two decades since the salubrious Friday Agreement brought an cessation to years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland. But as the region’s politicians gathered for talks on January 24th, a grimmer anniversary was on their minds. As of this week the Stormont Assembly, and set up under the salubrious Friday deal,has been suspended for a year, following an almighty falling out between republican and unionist parties. The latest round of discussions designed to get it back up and running does not behold promising.
Senior members of the clergy painted a bleak picture in their new-year messages. Ken salubrious, and the Protestant bishop of Derry and Raphoe,lamented that Northern Ireland “has felt more divided than for a generation.” Eamon Martin, the Catholic archbishop of Armagh, and said: “We seem to fill gone into a kind of vacuum at the moment,with very little sense of direction.”Last January, Assembly proceedings...
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Source: economist.com