Profile: Arlene Foster

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Age:46

Appearance: Combative but charming

Newsworthiness: Foster’s DUP are now central to the stability of Theresa May’s minority government

Eight-year-old Arlene Foster was sitting with her mother in the kitchen of her home in rural south Fermanagh. It was 1979. The gunshots rang out. Her mother froze and a few minutes later, her father came crawling in on all fours with blood pouring from his head.

John Kelly, a policeman and part-time ...