A dull, lacklustre Westminster campaign has produced seismic changes to the political landscape in the north.
This election has upended politics here, revealing a new order. Old certainties have been swept away. These changes did not happen overnight but reflect a deep-seated dissatisfaction with tired, self-defeating arguments.
Sinn Fein completed a hat-trick of being the largest Northern Ireland party in local government, the assembly and Westminster. It retained its seven seats, only narrowly missing out on taking East Derry from Gregory Campbell.
The DUP has gone from holding the balance of power in 2017 with 10 MPs, to sending just five to the House of Commons. How did it all go so wrong for a party that looked as though it had an iron-clad grip on power and influence in London?
Deirdre Heenan: The concept of ‘unionist seats’ has been consigned to history
David McCann: Sinn Féin has confounded expectations again
The party has been ravaged in its heartlands. The decades of believing that it had an automatic right, an entitlement, to hold some ‘safe’ seats has ended abruptly.
The DUP suffered a bruising set of results, losing three of its eight Westminster seats. The assault came in all directions, from the UUP, the TUV,........