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Stormont’s Brussels office was so inappropriate it could never be properly secured and would never have been approved if it was in the UK.
As the world was hurtling towards the cataclysm of the Second World War in 1939, the RUC were spending six months spying on someone Stormont officials thought might be an illegal moneylender — but was in fact an honest citizen.
The controversial definition of a victim of the Troubles which includes terrorists killed by their own bomb was drawn up by civil servants who said it should only be used temporarily — but the substance of that wording remains the government definition to this day.
What unfolded in Belfast High Court yesterday morning was a devastating exposure of the failure of the Stormont system: The Executive and legislature had created a gross injustice and then failed to rectify it, leaving a judge to do so for them.
Not for more than half a century has Lough Neagh been as famous – but for the worst of reasons.