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Alex Kane: No Drumcree mediator can fix a politics built on mutual hatred (opens the original)
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Why are we obsessed with importing national and international mediators and envoys to sort out our problems? George Mitchell may have got the parties over the line in 1998, yet within a matter of months the cracks were beginning to show. He was followed by Richard Haass and Mitchell Reiss, who were tasked during the early ersatz post-conflict years to assist with paramilitary decommissioning. Yet we still have active republican and loyalist paramilitary groups. Gary Hart (a former presidential c
Alex Kane: Drumcree crisis moves us closer to collapse of Stormont (opens the original)
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THE nature of politics here â that each action by one side has to be countered by an equal and opposite reaction by the other âmeant that whatever decision was made by the Parades Commission (and by any of the courts in the follow-up appeal hearings) was always going to fuel division. There is no such thing, in other words, as a gracious acknowledgment of having lost your case in court. Allowing the parade yesterday was going to provoke a stand-off. Not allowing the parade was also going to
Alex Kane: The real prize for unionists should be regaining their lost Stormont majority (opens the original)
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IN an interview after the DUPâs annual conference, Gavin Robinson talked about his willingness to pursue cooperation with the UUP and TUV. He said: âWe agree on an awful lot. We disagree on little things and sometimes thereâs an inherent willingness to poke each other in the eye in the hope that it makes a difference one way or the other. âThe DUP is the largest unionist party and the largest unionist vehicle in Northern Ireland. We have a strength and a depth and a breadth across Northe
Alex Kane: Call me naive, but could the Executive parties come up with a joint plan for the election? (opens the original)
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IN just over six monthsâ time â March 19 or 20 2027 â the Assembly will dissolve in preparation for an election on May 6. Although the present Assembly was elected in May 2022, it wasnât until February 3 2024 that a deal was reached to appoint a First and Deputy First Minister. In the 30 or so months since then, not much has happened in legislative terms; primarily because the relationship between Sinn Féin and the DUP remains as cantankerous as it was in the period between May 2022 and
Alex Kane: If a Stormont divorce goes through, what comes next? (opens the original)
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When Chris Bryant was first asked about a border poll â he had barely unpacked his suitcase â his response was suitably vague. So vague, in fact, that former News Letter editor Ben Lowry described it as âan appalling, muddled answer⦠he talks as if his evasion of the constitutional question is a decisive stance, when in fact he is signalling weakness when political leaders in Dublin are increasingly pushing for the break-up of the UKâ. You wonât be surprised that I agree with Ben. In
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