And relax…. It looks like Peter Hain may be floating another kite. This time, RTE speculates, he may be working on a plan to drop any requirement for fresh Assembly elections in May 07. The idea being, apparently, to give the current Assembly a chance to bed in. He has also (as Pete noted last night) quashed any idea of joint authority:
There is absolutely no question of joint authority or joint government at all. There is plenty of scope for practical co-operation provided through the architecture of the Good Friday Agreement cross-Border co-operation across a number of areas on energy, the economy, on child offending, on getting rid of unfair mobile phone roaming charges and having a single all-island mobile phone rate. On all those issues and many more, there is tremendous scope for future co-operation and, indeed, much of it is already taking place but there is no question of joint authority at all.
Mick 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
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