Both the end and a beginning?

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Peter Kelly’s analysis for the Irish World. He believes that this should be a definative moment:

The crux has arrived. Call it the fork in the road, the endgame or choose from the differing elaborate descriptions that media and government spin doctors will offer, this week appears to hinge the final �reveal all� in the process that has uncannily resembled a political poker game in recent times. With the definition of perseverance stretched to its most exaggerated and strained limit, both in dictionary and political terms, Sinn F�in and the IRA are being forced to deliver and deliver they must.

Clearly this is what Sinn Fein also believed it should be too, when Martin Ferris spoke in Westminster in January.

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