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I will be back in a day or 2 lads I will be busy working over the weekend in counting centre.

On 12th December, we reported at 9 pm & were away for 3:40 am. Quit blaming it on PR & just get the job finished.

Some people are slower than others, some a lot slower.

Feck sake...South Belfast was last to declare. Everybody else was away. But at £30 an hour, I wasn't complaining when they paid us at end of January.

I will be back in a day or 2 lads I will be busy working over the weekend in counting centre.

On 12th December, we reported at 9 pm & were away for 3:40 am. Quit blaming it on PR & just get the job finished.

It's usually 'the die is cast' but sure just carry on regardless.

Erm....assuming the Greens & SF stand again in the next one - what happens then? Her thumping majority this time will hardly be repeated again, smartarse.

Is Hanna canvassing for FG???  OMG, what a joke.  Nasty news if that's true.

She resigned from the SDLP whip this time last year in protest at the party deciding to form an electoral alliance with Fianna Fail though she still retains party membership. Nothing that controversial IMO about her helping to canvas for a Fine Gael candidate in that aspect as her opposition to a SDLP/Fianna Fail partnership was well known for some time before the vote to approve it took place, and resigned the SDLP whip & position as the party's Brexit spokesperson on such principle.

Has she not canvassed for Labour too in the 26 counties?
How can you go from SDLP/Labour to FG?

Nasty work.  What do the people of sth. Belfast think of this?

SDLP don't know where to go in the south - Durkan was standing as a FG lad not so long ago.

I went out & voted for her, but it was more just to get rid of thon bitter individual Little. However, while it is clear she doesn't like FF, I thought she was more a Labour type. If she's tying up with FG, she will be losing a vote here.

Wee Jamie wants to know how they're going to prevent discrimination against non-Irish speakers when it comes to recruitment for the the position of... Irish language translators.

Now, that's a puzzler.

Stick 'must possess basic knowledge of Ulster Scots' within your 'Desirable' criteria & it's nae problem Jimmy.

"Curried yoghurt? You use it as a lube, you're telling me? Never heard of it, personally, up here in North Antrim but, hey, we'll certainly give it a try".

"By the powers vested in me, we stand here today to witness the union of this man with (gulp) this other man, in lawful wedded matrimony ".

Drop your keys in the bowl at the door and let me show you around......

Emma Little laughed, nervously at first, but she did what she had been told.

Either way....I would still give it 10 minutes or so.

Or "And you know what, a chara, I really enjoyed my first ever visit to Andersonstown & to Connolly House. My lovely Assembly colleagues in the Sinn Fein were ever so welcoming. I can't wait till Easter. Go raibh maith agat".

"My dress sense tends to match my decor........I do so adore that timeless 1690s look".

Well Snarlene is certainly looking fairly chipper & somewhat more smug than she has any right to be, given her trials & tribulations.

No doubt MR2 and Playwiththewind1st will inform us what the report said before it was watered down and why the independent investigators will have changed their report?

The evidence was held in public so there isn't going to be any big surprises. Anybody expecting a smoking gun would do well to pinpoint the smoking gun in the public evidence that they are relying on.

Basically we have to anticipate a milder version of McBride's book. After all McBride has all the same evidence but is a (damn good) journalist with a book to sell rather than a judge.

It's no secret that the report was shown to certain people, quite a while back & they had the opportunity to ahem 'comment' on the proposed contents.  I believe it was Robert Maxwell kicked this all off years ago, with a legal challenge.

I would give it 6 months, tops.

As long as they sort out Casement, flyover at the M2 westlink, education, and more importantly the health services. Then they can f**k off

It's slightly incredible that a man who, only a few short months ago, wanted to spend the traditional "more time with the family", suddenly performs an about turn & takes on the Health Department - possibly the worst job of them all. That doesn't quite stack up. Plus, it doesn't look like you need to have been in Stormont at all to become a Minister nowadays. Two of the new Ministers have been at Stormont I'd say for at least a week. Do you get the impression now that the RHI report has been watered down in the interim & that Foster thinks she won't be getting her P45?

I would give it 6 months, tops.