Looking forward, there is reason to think Northern Ireland is becoming comfortable in its own skin…
Andrew Clarke is a DUP Councillor in Mid and East Antrim. Late in 1786, a plough pushed its way through Ayrshire fields. Brittle frosts had yet to kill the gentleness of summer, and the soil yielded easily. The plough’s great keel crashed through a simple nest, and its mouse barely scampered to safety. The misfortune of the simple creature moved the ploughman – one Robert Burns – to pity. Yet on reflection, Burns concludes his own plight is worse, burdened …