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Editorial: We can but hope that return of Stormont is not yet another false dawn for North

This is a big test for Sinn Féin, and a lot of eyes, including south of the border, will be watching how it leads a government

Stormont is stirring to life this weekend after a period of enforced idleness. Picture: Getty

The forbidding edifice of Stormont, the building on the outskirts of Belfast where Northern Ireland’s government is based – on those rare moments when a government exists – is stirring to life this weekend after a period of enforced idleness.

Two years after the region’s power-sharing institutions collapsed when the Democratic Unionist party walked out in a row over Brexit and the Northern Ireland Protocol, the parties are back in the Assembly and a new ...