so nothing has changed
the can has been booted down the road to sit in a ditch somewhere
both of them will call this a success, the shinners in the dail and the DUP madman will say it wasnt a proper deal and will bleat on… everyone knows this cant be resolved, noone cares if it can or cant be resolved so the plan will be just to move it to one side, pretend it dosent exists and move on to the business end of proceedings
coveney was a blitrhering mess this morning on radio 1, he sounded like @mikehunt in his annual review, there was no quantifiable accomplishment and it was clear that the whole effort and long hours were a waste of time, we were clearly back where we had started, and the absence of data meant anyone could interpret what they wanted from the discussions