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Northern Ireland’s final coal-fired power station at Kilroot is being shut down for the final time this weekend. That puts Northern Ireland’s electricity grid into perilous territory and in so doing reduces the margins in the Republic’s already strained grid. The public in both jurisdictions are now paying — quite literally — for poor planning.
We have not been in safe hands with the Executive we chose. That’s because we did not choose it for its competence. We mostly elected parties to represent distinct sectarian communities and to assert the identities of those communities.
More than 10% of all civil servants are on temporary promotion — and one of them has been ‘temporarily’ promoted for a staggering 18 years.
There’s an end of days feel to Northern Ireland. It’s not that Irish unity is necessarily looming, but that dramatic elements of what society has taken for granted are breaking down, with limited reason to believe that they’ll be coming back soon.
A plan to move the PSNI’s most elite officers to RAF Aldergrove has led to internal disquiet amid concerns that the location is dangerous.