Sometimes, an event has a meaning. It can depend on the way it was done, why it was done and who did it.
Sometimes, an event can be the final meaningful act of an old paradigm, perhaps designed to strengthen it but ultimately seen to end it. It becomes an act that releases a new paradigm. A defining moment.
People have again died in Northern Ireland over the last few days. Acts of violence that can only be condemned. But Northern Ireland has woken up to a new future with a wave of feeling and a change of mood like the first time the curtains are opened to a new spring sunshine after a last hard frost.
May all those who have died and others before them now be remembered with a pride thats takes us forward to better things.
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