"DUP leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness took office as first and deputy first ministers as five years of direct rule ended."
A few years ago if anyone had looked into the future and predicted the above image and sentence they would have been carted away to the funny farm. The "troubles" in Northern Ireland seemed never ending and positions on both sides too entrenched for anyone to envisage such progress.
Let's all hope that this is the start of a bright new future for the populace of Northern Ireland and that old enmities can be left firmly in the past.
Perhaps some of the more extreme knuckle-dragging "supporters" of the Old Firm could learn a lesson here...
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