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IRA’s armed campaign over

It is difficult to see this news as anything but a move forward, as sceptical as some people might be. For once, I think the White House have got it right, calling this ‘potentially’ historic. But could someone please tell Martin McGuinness that the correct preposition for Capitol Hill is ‘on’, not ‘at’ or ‘in’, because it is beginning to bug me…

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