I wonder if the article on Northern Ireland is the usual - a piece written by someone who left the place twenty years ago to further their career, who occasionally visits and notices one or two new things about the country, but essentially still views it with an out-of-date lurid emotionalism more in keeping with the people who have never set foot in Northern Ireland, but have watched a lot of films about the IRA with Brad Pitt in them, and are in love with the exciting idea of 'the struggle against occupation' because they haven't had to live with the daily reality of violence on their doorstep for thirty years - it becoming a bit of a drag after a while, this violence, somehow not at all exciting when you're trying to get on with your life - and immensely irritating when reboiled into superficial drama for readers of a fashion magazine.
So if the article isn't like that, it might be interesting. It might say something new.
