The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn.

They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.

Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.

A day like today is not a day for soundbites, really. But I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders. I really do.

We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.

It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.