February 16, 2011
By Staff Reporter
Stormont, of course, can be viewed for what it is, just a pile of stone. What goes on inside its walls can be disassembled and sculpted anew. The castle’s inner doings, like perspective, are also for the turning, though this state of affairs has been a long time coming.
Still, for those with doubts, for those who for years felt excluded and unjustly removed from Stormont’s corridors of ill-wielded power, there was at least the view to the south, from Belfast to Leinster House in Dublin, a once imperial regional office now housing the parliament of a Republic just a few counties shy of full flower.
Regardless of their architectural attributes, or who’s running them, parliament buildings are powerful symbols. In a democracy, a parliament building is a sacred space, a secular equivalent of a church. So it was no surprise that there was such uproar over the recent PSNI raid on Sinn F