I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

It's hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around.

Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.