Sir, - The first IRA ceasefire started at midnight on August 31st 1994, and ended at 7.01 pm on February 9th, 1996. Now the second ceasefire has begun at noon on July 20th, 1997. The duration of the first ceasefire was 526 days, 19
hours and one minute, while the gap between the end of that ceasefire and the start of the second was 526 days 16 hours and 59 minutes. Is this a fluke? -
Yours, etc., Conor Sexton, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14.