What do Catholic people living in non interface Belfast think of the flags crisis?

From Newsline last night… Gareth Gordon went ‘up west’ yesterday… and found there was not a great deal of sympathy, though not a great huge amount of passion either… Mick FealtyMick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the Internet on politics and the wider media and is a regular guest and speaking events across Ireland, the UK and Europe. Twitter: @MickFealty

#onthehill End of term report: how do MLAs assess the Assembly’s performance? (Can you name the 16 voices?)

Loitering around the Great Hall on Tuesday, I asked 16 MLAs to give a score out of ten and supply the headmaster’s comment for the Assembly’s end of term report card. Here’s what they said: End of term report: how do MLAs assess @niassembly performance? (mp3) But can you name all sixteen? No prize, other than the satisfaction of being correct and first! Given the sample size, any statistical inference is very unscientific. However, it’s still interesting to note that …

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