While I was in the hotel gym this morning CNN "news" was on the television. The formation of the new power-sharing government in Northern Ireland got 30 seconds of coverage. David Hasselhof's drinking problems got 2 minutes. I now wonder how many Americans even know that there is a Northern Ireland. I'm sure that 50% of us are taking delight in a celebrity's problems. I'm doubting my faith in evolution here.
So - here is some short coverage from www.Earthtimes.org of the incredibly historic, joyful and optimistic event in the north of Ireland. (It references 40 years of conflict - the conflict between Ireland and England is almost 1,000 years and running.)
"Belfast - There were smiles and tears of emotion when almost 40 years of bitter conflict between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland were sealed with the formation of an historic power-sharing government in Belfast Tuesday. The hardened men of Northern Ireland politics, Ian Paisley of the staunchly pro-British Democratic Unionists, and Martin McGuinness, a former IRA commander, were seen relaxing over a cup of tea and standing shoulder to shoulder shaking hands of well-wishers. These were pictures, everyone agreed, that would have been unimaginable not so long ago."
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