After all the turmoil over the Easter period, did our politicians manage to turn the tide this week

in how they came together to pay their respects to the Duke of Edinburgh?

Sinn Féin's response clearly struck a chord with unionist leaders who welcomed the tone and content of what Republicans said,

and the unrest on the streets has melted away for now anyway.

So has there been a reset at Stormont or could we

see things slipping back to a more recognisable pattern in the weeks and months ahead? Brian,

is it easy to overplay the significance of what Michelle O'Neill and Alex Maskey said on Monday,

do you think? Well, we might have been surprised 10 years ago, Mark, but not anymore.

And I think not since that handshake between Martin McGuinness and the Queen at the Lerick Theatre in 2012.

Vanilla, how do you say it?

I think really it was Prince Philip's death gave Unionists desperately needed distraction from the consequences of their own incompetence, as I said in yesterday's Irish news.

I'm breaking a rule here.

I never normally fill time by quoting myself.

But I think that's the main significance of it.

It was a distraction from the course of events.

And it may have been a very

useful one. Ben? I was surprised at the Sinn Féin response, which was so it was the unequivocal nature

of it, I think, was the surprise to me. But I think that the problems are so profound, I would be hesitant about reading

too much into it. So three quite distinct perspectives on recent events from three familiar voices,

Brian Rowan, the security expert and commentator whose new book is published this week,

the commentator and Irish News columnist Vanilla O'Connor and Ben

Larry, the deputy editor of the newsletter. Welcome to all of you to Red Lines. It's good to have

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