We were told that the election - now just a few weeks away - would be both brutal and bruising. It is certainly living up to…
Browsing: Stormont
In the end the political institutions gave way, unable to stand under the weight of this particular crisis. This was Stormont’s last day before its next…
The leadership of Unionism is at another crossroads, with another O’Neill, and another Paisley. Historical resonance abounds. Sinn Fein has rarely been more in tune with…
What a difference a day makes. Think of the focus on Stormont just 24 hours ago - the watching cameras, the listening, the recording and the…
Is there still room for manoeuvre - some way out of the political corners and crisis or is collapse now inevitable? That word inevitable doesn’t really…
In the end, it felt like another of those false alarm days at Stormont. Whatever the word count in this particular political play - or pantomime,…
“If dealing with the past is the proper thing to do then it shouldn’t be contingent on what your opponent will do. It can’t always be…
Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), The Right to Life, provides for signatories, i.e. governments, to ensure that when life is taken…
DUP Education Minister Peter Weir MLA visits an Irish medium school; the First Minister accepts the decision of Sinn Fein Michelle O’Neill MLA regarding the use…
By this time next week we should know the shape of the Stakeknife investigation. Already, there has been one delay in the announcement. It had been…
Usually the last piece of the jigsaw is the easiest one to find. Not so at Stormont. Yes, we can see much of the shape of…
Stormont is not Westminster. In the latter politicians do not choose Opposition. They are placed there. It is a mark of limited success within the narrow…
More telling than the leaders’ debate was the response in the Spin Room where an audience drawn from a wide spectrum of stakeholders, with maybe one…
George Bernard Shaw portended Northern Ireland as “an autonomous political lunatic asylum”. How right he was. I’m not sure that was the creator’s intention, however. The…
On the back of a visit to Belfast last week Nils Muižnieks, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, urged the British government and…