The political landscape of Northern Ireland experienced truly seismic and historic change, yet nothing changed, writes RTÉ’s Northern Editor vincekearney
The Stormont Assembly election in May was a watershed moment with Sinn Féin emerging as the largest party for the first time and a nationalist/republican being entitled to hold the position of First Minister for the first time.
The party insists it will not go back into the Stormont Executive until its concerns over the Northern Ireland Protocol are addressed to its satisfaction. His replacement Shailesh Vara lasted just 62 days before being sacked, becoming the shortest serving Northern Ireland Secretary of State. He said the checks, the so called Irish Sea Border, were but a symptom of the problem which is that Northern Ireland"is subject to a different set of laws imposed upon us by a foreign entity without any say or vote by any elected representative of the people of Northern Ireland."
That would almost certainly mean no lap of honour for President Biden, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Mr Sunak.
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