"The kind of arrangement that now exists could have been had decades ago."
Not with a unionist veto sitting in Stormont carving out electoral regions as they did., nationalists were treated as second class as you are aware.

Sinn Fein would never have gained seats or a voice in local government, the Unionist majority would have seen to that.

The only way it could happen was forcing the British government to remove the unionist government as they did in 1972, then force the British government to the table. It worked, the results are there to be seen. Technically shafting the Ulster Unionists. Carson must be revolving in his grave.

By the way, 11 members of that band who played sectarian songs outside the catholic church in July were arrested by police yesterday.