As a lapsed Presbyterian, I was appalled that the mainstream Protestant churches in Northern Ireland just before Christmas urged political parties to 'go the extra mile' to restore devolution.
Irish ministers and officials had an almost "pathological" concern that David Trimble could collapse talks just two years before he would lead unionism to signing the 1998 Belfast Agreement, according to British officials recorded in newly declassified files.
The first packed Kingspan Stadium since May 2017 was rewarded by an Ulster performance of note in the Guinness PRO14 as they signed off 2019 with an impressive display in a 35-3 rout over Connacht on Friday night.
A Protestant Irish speaker whose family had lived in Ireland for 300 years told British ambassador to Dublin David Blatherwick that he still did not feel accepted as Irish.
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