Politics

Drumcree? Again?

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When the Drumcree dispute erupted over parades down the Garvaghy Road, most observers already believed that N. Ireland was on the road towards peace. John Hume and Gerry Adams had been involved in the Hume-Adams talks, which had been publicly discussed since April 1993, causing much anger and upset within unionism but eventually leading to the IRA ceasefire in 1994 Rather than being delighted by the end of the IRA terrorist campaign, many conservative unionists were disturbed that the ......