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Fri 03 Mar 2007North puts the past behind itThere are easy and hard ways to try summing up Northern Ireland today. The easy way is to sigh that tribal allegiance still swamps real politics. It is a little more difficult to admit real changes.The ugly IRA has tiptoed off into the twilight. Some Sinn Féin voters almost certainly trooped to the polls on Wednesday in the belief that the party of their choice has had no connection with murder and destruction.