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Gerry Adams notably advances reconciliation by comparing sections of unionism to Afrikaners, writes DAVID ADAMS

THANK GOD for Gerry Adams and his efforts to bring reconciliation to our tiny island. While the rest of us were preoccupied with the Irish bloodlines of Barack Obama, and basking in the reflected glory of yet another Irishman making it to the White House, Adams was thinking of how best to address a much more immediate and problematic relationship, that between unionists and nationalists.