And goodbye Adams?

10th April 2008
By Anthony McIntyre

If a week is a long time in politics then a decade can only be an epoch. When the Belfast Agreement was finally cobbled together on Good Friday ten years ago few had the foresight to predict the movement from the then political ice age to what many political climatologists regard as the sunny season of today.

Although the republicanism of Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein was by then well into the process of thawing out, circumstances required that a few more short years woul…