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POLITICAL unionism has always been an anxious creature. When you’re descended from plantation stock, there’s a tendency to view the world through the opposite of rose-tinted glasses – angry-orange specs? – and regard the natives with suspicion. Even when you and your family have been living in Ireland for hundreds of years, there’s something in your DNA that encourages watchfulness and fears the word ‘change’.

A SUMMIT  assessing the benefits of the Good Friday Agreement on tourism in the north has been held at Ulster University’s Coleraine campus.

DANNY Kennedy had a great election, though he didn’t stand. As part of a panel during the BBC’s coverage on Saturday, the former UUP MLA bemoaned the fact that Sinn Féin had run six candidates in the Slieve Gullion District Electoral Area because they may have taken the UUP’s only seat on Newry, Mourne and Down District Council.

The leader of the DUP has defended a council candidate who once represented a group reportedley linked to loyalist paramilitaries.

Doug Beattie has accused the DUP of “failing” to lead unionism while appearing on the BBC’s Sunday Politics show.