NEW : An Fein leader Gerry Adams says it is ` ` a good day for Ireland '' Martin Adams speaks of the need to acknowledge the pain of all victims . Queen Elizabeth II lost a relative , Lord Kennedy , to an IRA attack in 1979 . Peter Sheridan , the chief executive of Co-operation Ireland , said he was struck by `` the ordinariness of the handshake by people who are in no way ordinary . '' The meeting would have been unthinkable a year ago .
NEW : An Fein leader Gerry Adams says it is ` ` a good day for Ireland '' Martin Adams speaks of the need to acknowledge the pain of all victims . Queen Elizabeth II lost a relative , Lord Kennedy , to an IRA attack in 1979 . The meeting would have been unthinkable a year ago .