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I haven't done a life-related post for a while, so here goes.  All is all, life is superb.  My weekly routines are a bit different this week, as
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Today, DUP leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein leader Martin McGuinness were sworn in as the First and Deputy First Ministers in the Northern Ireland Executive. The photograph in that story...with Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley seated alongside the Irish Taoiseach and Tony Blair as one "good old boys club" (problematic gender stuff aside for the ( Read more... )

This is SO frustrating.  At the same time that it appears that Sinn Fein is taking the biggest political risks in a good faith effort to salvage the political process, it looks like the DUP could ruin the best chance for a political settlement that this generation is likely to see.  More on this divergence of movement here.  I really hope the DUP ( Read more... )