What about some ‘hothouse political talks’ around NI’s social and economic future?

Brendan Mulgrew makes a point worth repeating: When has there been a hothouse political talks process around, for example, the economy, or education or health? Aren’t parents whose 11-year-old children are forced to sit four consecutive Saturdays of transfer exams entitled to have that core issue put under a similar political spotlight? Shouldn’t the search for a so-called peace dividend around tax breaks, enterprise zones or corporation tax have received the same dedicated amount of concentrated effort as that spent …

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