Daniel Murray on the campaign trail: It’s make-or-break for unionism as Sinn Féin closes in on top prize
If the opinion polls are accurate, and Sinn Féin qualifies for the position of First Minister after the Northern Assembly elections, can the DUP be brought back to the table to form an executive?
When Margaret Thatcher visited the Republican stronghold of Crossmaglen as British prime minister in 1979, she committed the cardinal sin of not stopping into Short’s Bar, a local institution.
Asked at the time by the BBC what he thought of Thatcher’s visit, publican Paddy Short quipped: “If she wasn’t in Short’s, she wasn’t in Crossmaglen.”
Conor Murphy was adamant that the Business Post’s trip to the border town in the Newry/Armagh constituency wouldn’t be similarly ...