Irish "Peace" Process at Recriminations Stage

Village Magazine's Harry Browne does an excellent job of summarising the Irish Peace process:

Among the shocked pundits reflecting on the Palestinian election victory of Hamas, there are already a few predictable straw-clutchers. Look, they say, at the Irish 'peace process': it worked only when the IRA was brought in from the 'terrorist' cold to the warm hearth of democracy. Hamas, like the IRA, must be a party to any workable solution anyway; the electoral mandate will help its leaders to face their responsibilities.