Chicago's Irish community breathes a sigh of relief

Maureen Carr got tears in her eyes as she watched CNN beforereporting to her job as chef at a southwest suburban restaurant andlearned peace might finally come to Northern Ireland.

"I think it's great news after all this many years," said Carr,36, who was born on the Southwest Side but grew up in County Clare,Ireland. "I mean everyone wants to see peace, don't they?"

No one in the local Irish community wished for anything less.Not everyone was celebrating all the details of the historicagreement to end direct British rule of Northern Ireland, but manybreathed a sigh of relief. Tears of joy, demonstrations ofnationalist pride and prayers that "the troubles" might …