Laura Friel reports on a New Year when nationalists once again paid the price of a Unionist refusal to countenance change Free article

``The current serious situation has arisen because Unionism and loyalism are opposed to change,'' said Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams. Following a meeting on Tuesday with British Secretary of State, Marjorie Mowlam, the Sinn Fein delegation called on the British and Irish governments to ``grab this process by the scruff of the neck and drive it forward with urgency. Free article