Could the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement help end Stormont’s stasis?

You’d think, with Brexit talks starting sometime after Wednesday, that Northern Irish politicians would have something better to do than engage in the amusing party politics that leave everyone else in Ireland and Britain stone cold. But nope, given the possibility that the EU could insist on the imposition of a land border between the north and south of Ireland, and at the very least the challenge of sorting out how to stem the free flow of booze and fags from a UK outside the EU to a Republic within it, the parties are locked on the following issues: the status of the Irish language (Sinn Fein); the extent to which members of the armed services and former paramilitaries should be pursued for killings during the Troubles (answer, any or all of the above, if they look like they may be guilty); and whether Arlene Foster, DUP leader, should step down as leader of the party on account of her involvement with the exciting ‘cash for ash’ affair, a green energy scheme