Northern Ireland specialises in political watersheds after which nothing will supposedly ever be the same again. In the wake of the Assembly election, one British newspaper even compared the emergence of Sinn Féin as the single largest party with the Easter Rising of 1916, citing the WB Yeats poem about all being “changed, changed utterly, More

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