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Interesting signs of the times at the installation of the new Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh. A Sinn Féin's representative and a British royal sat only a few feet away from each other. Conor Murphy, MP represented his party while one of the guests was the Duke of Edinburgh. In another sign of the times, the Duke arrived ahead of the President of Ireland. In diplomacy the most senior person arrives last at the ceremony, so Prince Philip's arrival meant that it was the President of Ireland, not a member of the British Royal Family, who was given pride of place in a ceremony in Northern Ireland and the senior billing.
With Sinn Féin and the DUP about to go into government together, Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness about to head a joint government in Stormont, Gerry Adams calling on people to give information about the attempted murder of a DUP man to the PSNI, and now presidents, royals and Sinn Féin MPs hanging out together, in Yeats's words "everything is changed, changed utterly." It is all happening at bewildering speed.
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Originally Posted by beardyboy