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But the dup remains the largest unionist group, so it still has a veto. power sharing here has always been fragile. devolution has only been fully operating for little more than two out of the last six years. one of the biggest consequences has been a delay to health service reforms. northern ireland has the longest hospital waiting times in the uk. stephen's daughter abigail has spent most of her life on various waiting lists. it's a lot of stress that the family don't need, because looking after abigail is stressful enough. but you have the added pressure then of chasing consultants, chasing...

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A lot of acrimony, all the attention that you usually get accompanying an election campaign, the cost of that, of this happening in the middle of winter when people are worried about bills and paying for their heating, all of this has gone through a broadly similar result, a few seats may change hands here or there but it is regarded as unlikely that would change the overall make—up of the parties. what happens then as you can find, we could find ourselves in the week of christmas with essentially the same scenario playing out at stormont, whereby the parties go back and there again is not t...

Fresh elections to the northern ireland assembly are set to be called today — after the deadline for the resumption of power—sharing passed at midnight. the delay means major decisions on public services remain on hold. let's remind ourselves of how this deadlock came about. back in may the nationalist party sinn fein won the most seats in the stormont assembly for the first time. it called on the dup to support the election of a speaker so that this a governing executive can be formed. but the dup — the biggest unionist party — has so far refused because it believes northern ireland's...