| Yesterday was either the last day of winter, or - according to the ancient Irish - the last day of the first month of spring! Whichever it was, it was a glorious glimpse of better weather ahead. When Lisa Dorrian went missing I covered the story the day it emerged for the Belfast Telegraph. It is a grim realisation that 20 years later we do not even know exactly what happened to her, let alone where her body is. A grave, grave crime. The News Letter has been publishing for almost 300 years and on Monday we will report on the digitisation of early editions from the 1730s. This week, we joined newspapers around the UK in reporting concerns that Artificial Intelligence will be allowed to 'scrape' material from papers and other creative industries including music without paying. Donald Trump's shocking outburst against President Zelensky yesterday emerged shortly before our opinion pages were going to print last evening. I quickly wrote this short reaction piece. Here is an essay by the brilliant, but disgracefully sidelined, writer Kevin Myers about Ireland's likely reception in the coming St Patrick's Day event in Trump's White House (it was first written for the website Gript). And here is a 'letter from America' by Phelim McAleer saying that Irish America is dead. Some excellent pieces on the legacy of terrorism: the solicitor Trevor Ringland asks if the legal world is helping distort the story of the Troubles, Jonny McCambridge here writes how reporting the Omagh inquiry has made an indelible mark on him, while the ex policeman William Matchett says that only the SAS could had the skill to stop the IRA at Clonoe. Another former police officer, Jon Burrows, who was head of discipline, again calls for reform of the police ombudsman. Jim Allister MP criticises the latest IRC report that doesn't mention the IRA. Meanwhile, Carla Lockhart MP says that safeguards in the Assisted Dying bill are already being watered down. Enjoy your weekend and your reading, and savour thoughts of spring ... Ben | 
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