Gerry Adams stands down, Mary Lou replaces him, a new dawn is upon us and suddenly talks at Stormont make a breakthrough and it looks like they’ll all be tucking into dinner in their subsidised canteen before you can whisper ‘ceasefire’.
You know, a cynic might suspect that the whole thing, at least the long drawn out attempt to breathe life back into the Stormont arrangement, was staged or timed so that the breakthrough would happen just when Sinn Fein want to present a new, Adams-free image to the electorate down South, one that would enable Leo to start cuddling up to Mary Lou.
But that’s what a cynic would think. And as readers of my blog well know, I am no cynic……
The Broken Elbow 