By all accounts she seems to have been that rarest of things, a straight talking politician, one who admitted taking, and inhaling, cannabis. Her biggest political achievement - making the Good Friday Agreement a political reality - as large and important as it is in itself just strikes me as a fraction of what she could have, and perhaps should have, achieved.
Hate to be the dissenter (actually, I don't...)
MM left precisely no legacy in Ireland. The Belfast Agreement was, firstly, not really her doing at all and secondly has failure built-in to it (not to mention the fact that it legitimises, indeed instituionalises, sectarianism).
Vincent Brown effectively took her legacy to pieces in a recent edition of Village. It's late so I'll not bother typing it out here, but if anyone wants to read it, I'll extract a few key paragraphs.
In the meantime, the former editor of the Sunday Business Post, Ireland's most left-wing newspaper (really!) wrote this piece in the Daily Ireland.
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