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Another major indication of change was the advance of the party, which is neither unionist nor nationalist. alliance has more than doubled its number of seats, moving from fifth place to third in the assembly. but the democratic unionists have lost their position as the leading party, which they've had for almost 20 years. the dup lost significant votes to a more hardline unionist group. a stronger unionism is a stronger partner for others in government. and we cannot continue with the divisions that are there. and the unionist voters do not want those divisions. and therefore, i want to see a...

For those who remember the past, sinn fein still deeply divide opinion but in the party today, there are far fewer elected representatives who were involved in the armed conflict and their electoral success is a new milestone in what has been a remarkable political journey. if we look back to the good friday agreement, they would have been ex—prisoners, they would have been people who would have had links to that sort of republican wing of sinn fein/the ira. what we see now is a very young party, a very progressive party. it's full of young women — the two leaders are women, both of whom h...

A Nationalist electoral victory in Northern Ireland now looks certain to cause Brexit chaos in the UK over a contentious agreement with the EU

Transition. in terms of what at this point it is that has seen them come through, is there a moment that you trace that back to? is it potentially the support of the union is from brexit and what flowed from that on the protocol, what are the factors on that?— factors on that? there has been a sliuht factors on that? there has been a slight increase _ factors on that? there has been a slight increase in _ factors on that? there has been a slight increase in support - factors on that? there has been a slight increase in support for - factors on that? there has been a slight increase in suppor...

Different views around policies relating to abortion for example and liberal policies and they also have different views around protocol itself, so people made a decision coming into this election as to whether there would be a question of the protocol connected to the future of the union was a primary concern, whether it about a functioning executive in assembly being prepared for the contemporary challenges of society today and so hence we saw the benefits of fragmentation amongst moderate unionism going to either alliance party or that hard dup position. and so i would not necessarily see t...