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Keep the civil service away from decisions on Derry

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Emma Little-Pengelly should have gone to the pope’s funeral

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DUP have set their face against any prospect of prosperity for north

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The British and Irish governments are back making gravy together

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People who argue for making Stormont work are in denial: It can’t

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