DUP narrowly wins Northern Ireland elections, loses overall majority

Amanda Burrows broke the habit of a lifetime last week.

Sinn Féin nearly came out top in last Thursday’s Northern Ireland Assembly elections.

When Foster’s Sinn Fein deputy withdrew from the local administration, the U.K.’s Secretary of State for Northern Ireland James Brokenshire was forced to announce a March 2 election.

“The two governments seem to be in denial of the reality that while the RHI scandal precipitated the election, the political system has been brought to the point of collapse by the failure to respect and implement previous agreements”. “The big parties are all the same”. His wife Bernie voted alone in Derry on Thursday.

Former DUP first minister Peter Robinson has warned politicians to step back and avert a headlong rush towards the destruction of devolved government.

However, it is not known whether Mr McGuinness voted in person, by postal vote or by proxy. “Should I? I don’t, yet”.

What’s now clear is that the DUP has lost its power to veto same-sex marriage following an election Northern Ireland.

Sinn Féin is so far insisting DUP leader Arlene Foster can’t be involved until the Cash-for-Ash controversy is resolved.

Voter turnout of 65 percent was the highest since the first elections immediately after the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement.

“We should never be leaving Europe”.

Northern Ireland’s main political parties on Saturday were facing a three-week deadline to mend fences after snap elections aimed at sorting out the bad blood between them left them deadlocked.

“Some day Northern Ireland will vote as a normal democracy”, he said.

Sinn Féin President, Gerry Adams, called the vote a vote against Brexit.

Annette Martin, who works for the Marie Curie charity, said: “I’m not sure I expect an very bad lot, to be honest, but I still wanted to make my vote”.

WHILE the election count was underway at Omagh Leisure Centre, Arlene Foster and members of the DUP caused annoyance as they spent the afternoon in a conference room.

Sir Gerald added: “It should be a matter for the United Kingdom government to determine the arrangements on legacy investigations, nobody else”. But while the election result cannot change the legal reality of Brexit, it can and probably will change the arguments around it. You need 30 votes to do that; they now only have 28.

Ms Burrows feels no qualms, all the same.

She said she had done nothing wrong and accused her critics of sexism.

“That is to say that Sinn Fein – which now is absolutely hegemonic in the nationalist community – must begin to make inroads towards the younger generation of the unionist community”.