Hain putting NI on a fast track?
Quite a few years ago, I remember chatting to a British official who was clearly frustrated with Northern Ireland’s politician’s general incapacity/unwillingness to think creatively about the future. He refered to a little bag of containing Northern Ireland’s dirty secret: ie the size of the annual subvention from HM’s Exchequer. For the most part, S of S Murphy’s ‘administration’ played it softly softly. As Brian Feeney points out, that is not Mr Hain’s style. He draws heavily from a New …