The editor of Belfast's Andersonstown News, Robin Livingstone, says his paper supports the Belfast Agreement. Accepting it, with all its flaws, is part of the agenda which he calls the "new nationalism".
New nationalism is embodied in the victory of the President, Mrs McAleese, in the Republic, and in the SDLP and Sinn Fein "standing shoulder to shoulder up at Stormont for the first time". It is about the nationalist consensus that has brought us to where we are today, he says. "It also means that the days of the men and women of violence are over."
Andersontown News is a local newspaper for nationalist Belfast. It was founded in the early 1970s as a voice for a community then facing the trauma of internment. More recently it has become a supporter of the peace process. Some political observers say it is the best indicator of what Gerry Adams is really thinking.
If that is true, then Robin Livingstone's support is interesting. He, like so many in Northern Ireland, has major reservations. No one, including himself, he says, seems capable of saying they support the agreement without adding "but".
The Belfast Agreement is a springboard, he says. It is part of a process moving towards "our vision of a new Ireland in which we can all live together in mutual respect for the first time. That is the key issue." Mr Livingstone (37) has been with the paper for the past 15 years, since he left college. The newspaper is doing well. It is accommodated on a small industrial estate, in the shadow of Black Mountain. It has acquired land nearby and intends to build its own offices and printing works this year.
Taking a definite editorial line in advance of Sinn Fein making up its mind at tomorrow's ardfheis in Dublin was not a problem. "We do not carry a torch for the SDLP or for Sinn Fein. The Andersonstown News is committed and aggressively independent. "If Sinn Fein does not want to come out and support it [the agreement], that's fine. I personally believe they will. If they want to prevaricate about it, that is their prerogative".
He says he does not think there is any point in denying the fact that what "we say in our editorial columns, and how we cover politics in west Belfast, has a significant bearing on how people think. That is reflected in the feedback we get." That is not something they shout about, he says. It is simply in the nature of the beast, and editing a newspaper that has virtual saturation coverage of its circulation area.