Northern Ireland is paying the price, writes Peter Geoghegan, for failing to give moderates any effective voice Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold/ Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” Northern Ireland this week calls to mind the famous words of WB Yeats: Union Flag waving protesters on the streets; firebombs thrown at police cars; elected representatives from the avowedly “cross-community” Alliance party forced from their homes.
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