Who really wins and loses in Irisgate?
If you offered an account of the past five days as a piece of a fiction to a publisher he would throw it back in your face and tell you that it was too unbelievable for anyone to buy.
Actually the real crisis this week at Stormont had little to do with the salacious details of Peter and Iris Robinson’s private lives. It relates to a much more plausible, elemental power play of “who eats whom”.
Yesterday brought to a close, for now at least, the most extraordinarily feverish week in Northern Ireland since the collapse of the Assembly in October 2002.… Seguir leyendo »