Power sharing crucial as North faces Brexit

It is incumbent on all sides to reach a workable power sharing executive

Stormont, seat of the Northern Ireland Assembly

This Thursday, people in the North will vote in an election they didn’t ask for and which few of them will have wanted. Apathy is likely to rule the day in a place where voter turnout has been falling in every Assembly election since the Good Friday Agreement.

While the public was rightly shocked at the scandalous potential overspend of nearly £500 million on a botched green energy scheme, the Renewable Heat Initiative, ...