On Good Friday morning I travelled North to meet Gerry Adams. The rendezvous point was Parliament Buildings on the Stormont Estate. I arrived to what seemed like the winners’ enclosure. A ceremony to mark the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement was underway. Sinn Féin were as comfortable in their surroundings as the merchant princes are in Cork and the Conservatives in Westminster. One of their own was the organiser-in-chief of proceedings. There were shinners everywhere. Pat Doherty, a key republican during the past five decades and a former Sinn Féin West Tyrone MP, came out…

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