BBC Northern Ireland's weekly politics programme. Presented by @MarkCarruthers7. Also posts on #SundayPolitics & #BBCRedLines ▪️Email: BBCPoliticsNI@BBC.co.uk
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"If a student in my class came up with that to explain tariffs, I'd have failed them."
Irish Economist @davidmcw - on Donald Trump's formula to apply the tariffs.
American consumers "will be condemned to paying more for the best & less for the worst."
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Health or the protocol what's your priority? @MarkCarruthers7 asks @paulgivan
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"The last time I checked, Northern Ireland did vote to leave."
Kemi Badenoch has mistakenly said Northern Ireland "voted to leave" the EU as she defended her party's record on Brexit.
More from her interview with @BBCJayneMcC on @bbctheview tonight
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"None of the unionist politicians that I heard speaking today seem to give one bit of concern at all for those people who were going through that trauma today."
@MarkCarruthers7 asks SDLP MP @columeastwood if he will apologise for naming Soldier F?
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"The DUP has had more positions on the Irish Sea border than the Kama Sutra."
Belfast Telegraph's @SuzyJourno
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.@Deirdreheenan : There is an irony here that many of the people complaining that President Higgins won't attend the event, are the very same people who refused to participant in all-island dialogue on brexit & the shared island initiativ
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"Casement Park needs to be built. I believe some of the opposition to it.... smacks of sectarianism."
@Naomi_Long says you can't expect a project to cost the same in 2024 as it did in 2010.
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"Dressing this up as some sort of protection of women and girls."
@AllisonMorris1 tells @MarkCarruthers7 that this week's violence has nothing to do with stopping violence against women and girls...
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"You might aswell ask to refight the Battle of the Boyne."
SDLP MP @ClaireHanna says the Drumcree dispute is in the past.
@MarkCarruthers7 #SundayPolitics
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On the day that a new constitutional committee was setup in Downing St to oversee relationships across the UK - here's Cork comedian @TadhgHickey's take on it.
#BBCTheview | @MarkCarruthers7
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"When you get amateurs working for unaccountable incompetents, run by a narcissist, spending other people's money - what you get is a trade policy that makes no sense whatsoever."
Economist @DavidMcW - on Donald Trump's new tariff policy.
More on @BBCTheView tonight.
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.@ProfKarolSikora Our health service is going to be stretched over the next few days. That's why it is so important we don't get more & more people infected by meeting on the beach."
#Coronavirus #covid19 #BBCTheView @MarkCarruthers7
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Is there a good IRA and a bad IRA? @MarkCarruthers7
asks Tánaiste & Fianna Fáil leader @MichealMartinTD
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Northern Ireland's most senior judge reacts to @Brandonlewis' comments that the UK "will break international law."
Watch the full interview with Sir Declan Morgan - on @BBCTheView tomorrow night on @BBCOneNI
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"There is nothing to say that I will vote to remain part of the UK or that I will vote for a new Ireland."
Former loyalist politician Davy Adams says he'll make any decision on a border poll based 'solely on where he thinks the best future for his grandchildren lies.
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"A gutless government."
@SuzyJourno tells @endamcclafferty that the Labour Government tried to "bury the bad news" over Casement Park...
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.@SuzyJourno says the problem for the DUP is that days after Gavin Robinson talked about a new approach - the Education Minister met the LCC.
"That doesn't look like a new approach."
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"She lacked humility, she was passive aggressive, she was very uncomfortable, she was sometimes quite rude, but at no point was there empathy or compassion"
@deirdreheenan talks to @MarkCarruthers7 about former First Minister Arlene Foster's appearance at the Covid Inquiry
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"Now is the time" for the Irish government to call a "citizens' assembly" on Irish unity, says Sinn Féin leader @MaryLouMcDonald
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"It's just alienate, alienate, alienate,"
Joe Brolly accuses the DUP of "short-term opportunism"
rather than attempting to creating a viable & flourishing Northern Ireland.
Listen to the interview in full: bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g3zth…
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"A coalition government run by numbskulls."
Hotelier Bill Wolsey - on the Stormont Executive.
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Catherine Connolly says her first official visit after inauguration as President is to Northern Ireland. Will her election advance a border poll? @suzyjourno believes so
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Why are 40 grammar schools & a fee paying prep school eligible for funding from a new scheme to tackle underachievement - but schools in west Belfast are not?
@MarkCarruthers7 asks Education Minister @paulgivan
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"Orangefest is in Belfast City Hall's grounds this year."
@chrisadonnelly tells @MarkCarruthers7 that those calling for a ban on @KNEECAPCEOL should consider the behaviour of other groups and organisations in Northern Ireland...
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Coming up on #SundayPolitics at 2.30 on @BBCOneNI
@SuzyJourno tells @MarkCarruthers7
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"It will be a shame if people in NI are collateral damage in some game of blackmail between the Tory government and the @duponline "
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"The reasons for NI to exist have actually gone."
@fotoole tells @MarkCarruthers7 some of his arguments for a united Ireland...
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.@MarkCarruthers7 challenges DUP leader @J_Donaldson_MP about social media postings from one of the party's council candidates.
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"I think I'd say get stuffed,"
Professor Diarmaid Ferriter - on what he'd say if the NIO called and ask him to help write an official history of The Troubles.
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"He is doing nothing to advance it, he is deliberately delaying as much as he can"
Brian Feeney criticises the Taoiseach for not doing more to advance a United Ireland
#BBCTheView | @MarkCarruthers7
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On #SundayPolitics, @MarkCarruthers7 asks @MaryLouMcDonald for her view on 'murderous IRA criminality during the Troubles':
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"Last year when Sinn Féin decided to go a party in the White House Israel had killed 30,000 Palestinian civilians - a third of them children - and Sinn Féin still drowned the shamrock with Joe Biden....."
Belfast Telegraph's @SuzyJourno
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Senator Ian Marshall says remarks by @J_Donaldson_MP that agri-food industry leaders haven't fully read the UK-EU Brexit deal are "very disappointing" "completely disrespectful" and that Sir Jeffrey has got it "horribly wrong"
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"We need to remember that unionism needs Stormont more than nationalists do."
Noel Doran, @Irish_News Editor.
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"I was genuinely disturbed to see row after row of houses with pre-printed posters saying 'locals live here ' and anything they could find that was red, white and blue - to basically say, please don't smash up my house."
@SDLPlive leader @ClaireHanna on #Ballymena #BBCTheView
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"Disturbing pile on."
@ClaireHanna tells @MarkCarruthers7 that criticism of SDLP candidate Cara Hunter has been "deeply sectarian"...
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"Some people use statistics like a drunk uses a lamp-post."
@chrisadonnelly tells @MarkCarruthers7 that "electoral realities" are pointing to a united Ireland...
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"This notion it is discrimination is ludicrous." @EoinTennyson disagrees with the DUP position on Covid vaccine passports...
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"Unless this Protocol goes, then this Union is over."
@JimAllister tells @MarkCarruthers7 he wants rid of the "Windsor Whitewash"...
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"The DUP approach has always been a sideshow." @ClaireHanna tells @MarkCarruthers7 that it will be talks between the UK and EU that will resolve the NI Protocol...
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"Right across this bill you see a spine of political interference"
@annacbryson tells @MarkCarruthers7 historians are wary of the government’s official history on the Troubles
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Lord Trimble reflects on his last visit to see Seamus Mallon
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"That's a job for fruits & fenians." - what writer Gary Mitchell's careers teacher told him when he said he wanted to be a writer.
@MarkCarruthers7 | #BBCTheView
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"Racism is not just a unionist problem. I get all these tweets and there are as many 1916 bots as there are 1690 bots."
@SDLPlive leader @ClaireHanna | #BBCTheView
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"We're talking about the deaths of tens of thousands."
@ClaireHanna tells @MarkCarruthers7 that @paulgivan has failed to acknowledge why some people are upset about his visit to Israel...
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Kingsmills murders: "It was wrong when it happened. It's wrong today...As a republican I'm shamed by it" says @JohnODowdSF as he also reveals three relatives of his were murdered the night before.
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Northern Ireland's Sports Minister has attended more tennis matches in Paris - than GAA games in NI.
DUP's @PhillipBrett21 says his party has "a clear record on the issue" and the dFM visited a GAA club on one of her first engagements in office.
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"There has been a substantial shift towards Irish Unity.... that has been driven by Brexit".
@JonTonge - on his research of Alliance party members.
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"You couldn't but be a little bit disturbed with the way they (FF & FG) handled this situation, that is 'Get Sinn Fein', rather than come with a narrative around the future"
Denis Bradley, ex co-chair of the Consultative Group on the Past
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"I don't see what's to celebrate or commemorate about an event that is fundamentally divisive".
PBP's @fiona_ferg - on the upcoming Church service marking the partition of Ireland & the centenary of NI.
#SundayPolitics @MarkCarruthers7
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"Completely disrespectful"..."He's got it horribly wrong" Reaction to @J_Donaldson_MP comments last night that agri-food business leaders don't fully understand the EU-UK withdrawal agreement deal. Former UFU president Ian Marshall and FSB NI chair @tinamckenz hit back
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Coming up tonight....
PUP Cllr John Kyle tells @MarkCarruthers7 that the protocol needs fundamental change but it also offers significant economic opportunities for Northern Ireland.
Watch the full interview on @BBCTheView at 10.35pm on BBC One NI
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"I think it's an absolutely disgusting reflection on where we are in 2025."
@SorchaEastwood tells @MarkCarruthers7 that people on disability benefits are worried by the Government's plans...
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"Nationalists are not going to vote for the SDLP or Sinn Féin."
Marianne Buchanan Stewart from Women's Rights Network says she knows women who will no longer vote for certain parties because of their stance on trans issues...
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"I would far rather travel extra miles to have treatment in a timely fashion."
@naomi_long tells @MarkCarruthers7 that more people should be prepared to travel to access healthcare...
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"This is a result of decisions the UK government has made." @ClaireHanna has little sympathy for @eastantrimmp and others opposing the NI Protocol...
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.@NewtonEmerson says the DUP's humiliation has only started.
"How on earth can they knock on doors and say defend the union, effectively from what we have done to it."
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"Decades down the road the union as we know it will come to an end."
@wallyt53 tells @MarkCarruthers7 that unionists should prepare for what’s coming?
⏰11pm | BBC One NI
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"Those who have most to lose from us all having to consider an alternative to Stormont are those who are refusing to go back in"
@chrisadonnelly tells @MarkCarruthers7 that Unionists are in a difficult position if Stormont doesn't return
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The @SJAMcBride 'state of NI' article at the weekend kicked off a debate about how broken is NI and can it be fixed. He opened tonight's show with these thoughts
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"We could get Windsor Park up to scratch."
@CatharineHoey tells @MarkCarruthers7 that the legacy of the European Championships coming to Northern Ireland should benefit football not GAA.
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"The NI Protocol is a gross assault on our constitutional position. The protocol is not just about economics, it is about something much bigger." @JimAllister
@MarkCarruthers7 | #SundayPolitics
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Direct rule "...is out of the question"
Sinn Féin leader @MaryLouMcDonald tells @DarranMarshall what she thinks 'Plan B' should mean if Stormont doesn't return
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"There is now no real emotional bond between the political establishment and N Ireland."
The former Alliance leader @AlderdiceLord talks to @MarkCarruthers7 about the change in attitudes to N Ireland from London.
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"..Even the Grand Orange Lodge is an all Ireland institution."
@chrisadonnelly talks to @MarkCarruthers7 about the cultural and institutional connections across the island
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"If those workers leave we are in serious trouble."
@AllisonMorris1 tells @MarkCarruthers7 that the NI economy will suffer if some of the workers targeted in the past week choose to leave...
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"We have no alternative.. Education is in crisis in Northern Ireland."
"If I was now 28, I couldn't afford to be a teacher"
@liam_mcguckin_ from the National Association of Head Teachers. @NAHTnews
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"If you put a professor of law, a professor of political science and a professor of economics in the SSE Arena on a Saturday afternoon in June that's not a PR exercise."
Is Ireland's Future a PR campaign not a serious political campaign? @MarkCarruthers7 asks @cjhumanrights
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On Monday, Sports Minister Gordon Lyons told UTV he had no proposal on the table for #CasementPark.
@UlsterGAA's Stephen McGeehan says that is "bewildering".
More on @BBCTheView tonight.
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"As Irish republicans we should be big enough to say that we're not going to be part of celebrating partition" @PearseDoherty tells @MarkCarruthers7
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"I want to see bonfires that represent the very historic nature - when the were lit to welcome King William to Northern Ireland."
DUP MP @carlalockhart - on last night's bonfire in Dungannon which had an Irish tricolour & an image of the Taoiseach on it.
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.@moneillsf : "There appears to be a double standard within the policing service. There appears to be an ethos or culture that turns a blind eye to UDA / UVF thugs on the street but a disproportionate attempt to target nationalist communities."
@MarkCarruthers7 #SundayPolitics
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.@Freight_NI gives his response to DUP MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson
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How much are Sinn Féin MPs paid?
@MarkCarruthers7 asked @johnfinucane. The North Belfast MP said he doesn't have permission to provide that information.
#SundayPolitics
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"I'm glad we have most of the Game of Thrones stuff out of the way. It is maddening that we are all in this crazy waiting room, and that the DUP's internal psychodramas are allowed to set the pace."
@ClaireHanna
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A bet's a bet. On @bbctheview tonight the ballad of the Green MLA and the commentator in the purple dress.
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"In any other city they'd just be called a crime group."
Belfast Telegraph's @AllisonMorris1 says questions need to be asked as to why loyalists paramilitary groups continue to recruit young people.
#BBCTheView | @MarkCarruthers7
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"It was the Real IRA who detonated the bomb that day."
Kenny Donaldson from @SEFFLisnaskea tells @MarkCarruthers7 that people shouldn't forget who caused the Omagh bomb...
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"If I were Invest NI now I'd be scuttling down the M1 and on to the first direct flight to Washington to make my case for investment in Northern Ireland."
@davidmcw says companies in Derry & Newry will pay half the tariff that those in Letterkenny or Dundalk will pay.
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"Of course I'd vote for him." @columeastwood knows who he would support if he lived in north Belfast.
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"I am tired of Sammy Wilson desperately running around trying to seek a headline. He has been continually irresponsible throughout this pandemic."
Minister @NicholaMallon says Sammy Wilson's comments about Dr Tom Black were "outrageous" & "reckless"
@BBCTheView #BBCTheView
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"More people will turn away from the union in my view"
@LeoVaradkar tells @MarkCarruthers7 the UK government's bid to unilaterally change the protocol was a "strategic mistake" and a "peculiar policy"
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"We cannot ignore the ongoing genocide in Palestine."
@CArchibald_SF tells @MarkCarruthers7 that @KNEECAPCEOL were right to clarify their comments and apologise but the outcry over their comments has been too extreme...
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"We need reasons to live, reasons to have joy."
@garysnowpatrol tells @MarkCarruthers7 that the lack of arts funding in Northern Ireland damages the chances of younger artists making it.
The interview in full on Sunday Politics on @BBCOneNI at 10:15am.
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"The people of Derry have taken me into their hearts."
Incoming Mayor of Derry City & Strabane @Lseenoi says her new job is about representing the people who elected her.
#SundayPolitics @MarkCarruthers7
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.@naomi_long says the 'DUP didn't just look the gift horse in the mouth, they shot it in the head', about negotiations on Monday.
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"I predicted there would be these problems " Former Brexit Secretary @DavidDavisMP tells @MarkCarruthers7
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"I think Brexit itself will accelerate the debate about a united Ireland," Dominic Grieve MP says Northern Ireland's "identity and status" is being "churned up" as a result of Brexit.
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"The people of Northern Ireland are now being asked to accept bad governance or no governance"
@deirdreheenan talks to @MarkCarruthers7 about what the Covid Inquiry showed about our political institutions
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Message to the politicians from @ManufacturingNI 's Richard Hogg "Get over youselves - let this deal run."
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“I was standing saying no surrender…but it has got us absolutely nowhere, it has put us into reverse.”
@MarkCarruthers7 asks @wallyt53 if unionist leaders need to learn the lessons of history?
⏰11pm | BBC One NI
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Is MLA pay an issue for Jeffrey Donaldson? @MarkCarruthers7 asks @SuzyJourno
"There is resentment among some MLAs that the people stopping the deal are the MPs who have nice big, fat salaries."
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"The time for talking is long since past."
@naomi_long tells @MarkCarruthers7 that loyalist paramilitaries should have "left the stage" long ago...
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'Planning for constitutional change needs to start now,' says @MaryLouMcDonald on #bbctheview
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"There's a bus that goes to town at 10am and one that comes home at 6pm"
@ShaunaReports - on public transport in rural NI.
"I grew up in Tyrone. The first thing you do when you turn 17 is get your driving licence because there's no other way to get around."
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"The simple fact of the matter is the UK is broke."
Former Downing Street official Tom Kelly tells @MarkCarruthers7 that Northern Ireland has lost credibility with Westminster in general.
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