Not sure the new [Principal] Deputy Speaker really gets the basic requirements of her new office:
“Jim Allister’s bluster around my appointment is nothing but the usual ranting from a leader on the back of yet another disastrous election whose only achievement has been to take his party to to the verge of political oblivion.
Ms Ruane – whose period at Education was marked by recursive argument and stalement – may be in for a fairly challenging time ahead in her term in the Stormont hotseat
