Despite the Queen's handshake with Martin McGuinness there is little reconciliation | Simon Jenkins

It is good that the Queen's visit has crossed a divide. But power sharing in Northern Ireland remains inherently unstable

'Queen shakes hands with IRA' would once have caused a sensation. Today it is a happy milestone on the rocky path of Irish reconciliation. Within a year, the monarch has made the first ever visit to the Republic of Ireland and is today greeting a republican leader in Belfast. That greeting is across a political divide but also a religious one, the divide that created Irish...