Sabres Silent (For Now...)
After all the rattling over recent days, the sabres are now back in their scabbards. Who backed down? Senior DUP sources say Sinn Fein was looking for a date and a mechanism for devolving justice, but settled for talks in London. Sinn Fein will probably maintain that it has put its concerns firmly on the agenda, engaged the prime minister and alerted the new First Minister not to take republicans for granted. The agenda for Friday's Downing Street talks includes investment, devolving justice, concerns about paramilitaries, parades, the Irish language and education (funny I though education was devolved already - what's Gordon Brown got to do with academic selection?). So they should have all those sorted out by lunchtime...
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