Last week, the former US President Bill Clinton urged the people of Northern Ireland to look beyond the sporadic violence threatening their province and complete the peace process. Here, a correspondent reports on a range of quiet initiatives taking the capital, Belfast, into the future Sometimes it seems that the only stories that make it out of Belfast are the bad ones, those that reprise the city’s troubled past – the stalled peace process, or the current anger over the “on-the-runs”, the 187 people given secret letters assuring them they would not face prosecution for IRA crimes. Before that there was the upheaval surrounding last year’s flag disputes over how many days the Union flag should be flown from Belfast City Hall. To my mind, however, there is