Posted By: March 06, 2017
Outcome confirms institutions and political culture continue to be mired by sectarian headcount politics Irish Times Editorial. Dublin. Monday, March 6, 2017 The question remains exactly the same. Status quo ante restored: will Arlene Foster resign or step aside as First Minister pending the inquiry into the extraordinary fiasco of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme? Will no-one pay a political price for a scandal […]
Posted By: March 06, 2017
Tom Kelly. Irish News. Belfast. Mondy, March 6, 2017Best to get the congratulations and commiserations out of the way first. Elections as they often do, create winners and losers and this one was no different. Sinn Féin won, and in style. They took the DUP to the wire, and a margin of a mere 1168 votes and one seat now separates […]
Posted By: March 06, 2017
Alex Kane. Irish News. Belfast. Monday, March 6, 2017 The biggest gaffe of the DUP’s campaign was Arlene Foster’s line: “If you feed a crocodile it will keep coming back and looking for more.”She seemed to be describing Sinn Féin – with whom she has been in the executive since 2007 –as a cold, dangerous, greedy, reptilian beast. She also made […]
Posted By: March 06, 2017
John Manley.Irish News. Belfast. Monday, March 6, 2017 The weather was pretty awful but the weekend mood in Nationalist areas across The North was buoyant. Having witnessed a slide in the green bloc’s vote for more than a decade, suddenly there was fresh hope for political change. While Sinn Féin led the resurgence, growing its popular vote by more than 29 percent since […]
Posted By: March 06, 2017
John Manley. Irish News. Belfast. Monday, March 6, 2017A surge in votes for Sinn Féin left the republican party with 27 seats – just one behind the DUP, which went into the election with 38.Mrs. Foster kept a low profile over the weekend, while public expressions of support for her have been conspicuous by their absence.Former economy minister Simon […]
